OT: OEM problems with aic79xx drivers

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:11, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 15:00, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> > Stephen Smoogen wrote:
> > 
> > > Well after spending more time than I should trying to shoehorn the
> > > latest AIC79xx driver into the last 2.4.20 kernel.. and remembering that
> > > Doug Ledford had hair before he started working on the driver... I
> > > decided it was time to look for help.
> > 
> > try it in the aic7xxx ml: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/aic7xxx
> 
> Sure.. point out the obvious :P. Sorry.. I cant believe I didnt do the
> right thing the first time.

My apologies again. I spent 3 days googling and didnt see this obvious
item.. went to it, read and figured out that the main problems are:

1) When compiling the module limit the SCB to 32 versus 256
2) The hardware is sensitive to cabling, backplanes, and terminators.
This seems to have been the root of the problem.

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