From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270480AbTGXDbs (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:31:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270483AbTGXDbs (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:31:48 -0400 Received: from user145.net484.nc.sprint-hsd.net ([65.40.169.145]:25779 "EHLO mail1.lvwnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270480AbTGXDbr (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:31:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1F56AE.8020503@lvwnet.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:46:54 -0400 From: Vinnie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Philippe Troin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.19 (and newer) - prob with the new adaptec aic7xxx driver and Promise UltraTrak100 TX2 References: <3F1F5397.8000001@lvwnet.com> <87ispsd229.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> In-Reply-To: <87ispsd229.fsf@ceramic.fifi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Philippe Troin wrote: >>In a nutshell, the problem goes like this: >> >>If I compile the kernel to use the NEW aic7xxx adaptec driver, the >>SCSI bus hangs almost immediately upon commencement of a large write >>operation, such as attempting to copy a 500MB file from one of the >>internal client machines to a SMB shared directory on this server. >>The problem is reproducible on 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 kernels, if I use the >>"new" aic7xxx driver. > > > 8< snip >8 > > Have you tried the updated aic7xxx driver at > http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ ? > > AFAIK it fixes a lot of problems with aic7xxx and was not included in > 2.4.21 for technicalities. Hi Phil, Thanks for that REALLY quick reply! I will go check it out. vinnie