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Version 6.1.11 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

DISCUSSION Justin T. Gibbs 3 participants 7 messages Apr 9, 2001 – Apr 11, 2001

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As always, the latest version of this driver is availalbe here:

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/

This site now includes installation instructions, feature set, etc. The page is under construction - comments welcome.

For the impatient:

CHANGELOG:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/CHANGELOG

2.4.3-patch:

    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-6.1.11-2.4.3.patch.gz

2.2.19-patch:

    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-6.1.11-2.2.19.patch.gz

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As always, the latest version of this driver is availalbe here:

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/

This site now includes installation instructions, feature set, etc. The page is under construction - comments welcome.

For the impatient:

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CHANGELOG:
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/CHANGELOG

2.4.3-patch:

    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-6.1.11-2.4.3.patch.gz

2.2.19-patch:

    http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-aic7xxx-6.1.11-2.2.19.patch.gz

So, what about on an alpha system. I've asked a few times what I could do, but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.

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So, what about on an alpha system. I've asked a few times what I could do, but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.

From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears

that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha. The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug it.

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So, what about on an alpha system. I've asked a few times what I could do, but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.

From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha. The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug it.

This seems to be the case for some Alpha boxes. On these aic7xxx dies with 2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

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So, what about on an alpha system. I've asked a few times what I could do, but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.

From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha. The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug it.

This seems to be the case for some Alpha boxes. On these aic7xxx dies with 2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

Sure, I'll try it. I didn't have any luck with the one from 2.2.17 or 2.2.18 on this system.

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2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

Sure, I'll try it. I didn't have any luck with the one from 2.2.17 or 2.2.18 on this system.

If the original aic7xxx driver works on your Alpha and Justin's does not both under 2.2 then I consider it very unlikely the bug is anywhere but Justin's driver

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So, what about on an alpha system. I've asked a few times what I could do, but you didn't help nor explain what you meant.

From talking to the maintainer of the QLogic driver, it appears that there is a generic issue with data mapping on the Alpha. The only way to correct this issue will be for someone to debug it.

This seems to be the case for some Alpha boxes. On these aic7xxx dies with 2.4 but then so does IDE DMA for example. The real test would be to run Justin's 2.2.19 patch driver and see if that works on Alpha.

Ok, i tried 2.2.19 with only justin's driver. everything works. The tagged queue is the default, 253, when doing:
for x in b c d;do cp zero sd$x&;done
it works. 2.2.17 stock would give me errors before the end of the write and just hang. 2.4.x with and without justin's driver would also do the same.

I used 2.2.19 with justin's latest (as of like 3 days ago) driver. I just now had time to try it.

I'll give 2.4.1 another try with justin's latest driver (time permitting)

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