[Fwd: Re: Qlogic 1280 driver blues]

[Jay Estabrook]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:50:34PM -0700, Jon_norstog AKA Thursday wrote:
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> > From: Jon_norstog AKA "Thursday" <thursday at allidaho.com>
> > Reply-To: thursday at allidaho.com
> > To: Valeriy Kirshin <v123456 at gmx.net>
> > Subject: Re: Qlogic 1280 driver blues
> > Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:48:53 -0700
> > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 00:06 -0500, Valeriy Kirshin wrote:
> > > I had the same issue on PWS500a with AC1. 
> > Crazy! I had no problem using AC1 on a PWS, an xp/500 and an XP/667.
> > 
> > But for the life of me, I can not figure why the installer is selecting
> > the 1280 driver for machines that have the 1040 controller.  The two are
> > different enough that SRM doesn't see the 1280. Same with Tru64 IIRC.
> > 
> > Why does anaconda "read" the 1040 as a 1280?  

The old "qlogicisp" driver was unmaintained AND buggy, and had not been
ported forward to support the latest SCSI subsystem requirements, so it
finally (IIRC) got dropped out of kernel.org kernels.

Someone, out of the goodness of their heart (THANK YOU!), put 1020/1040
support into the qla1280 driver, which IS maintained and not (as) buggy
in almost all cases.

And yes, DEC/COMPAQ/HP never used newer than the 1040 chipset on
Alpha, so 1280 and such were never supported by SRM or the OSes.

 --Jay++

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