Re: aic7xxx scsi adapter

Sergio Pires de Albuquerque (sergio.drtmg@mtb.gov.br)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:58:21 +0000

"Arman (BiTS)" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Have anybody tried to install Linux (redhat or slackware) kernel 2.2.0
> and
> above on a machine with aic 7880 Ultra scsi adapter?. I've tried both
> redhat 6.0
> and slackware 4.0 and on both occasion, the kernel crashed with a GPF
> error.
> After trying for several time and using several boot images, I've still
> got the
> same error so i tried slackware 3.5 with kernel 2.0.34 and it works.
> Then I compile a new kernel ( 2.0.37 pre something , comes with
> slackware 3.9)
> and again it crashed when i tried to boot. Same goes to kernel 2.0.36
> but I didn't try 2.0.35.
> The machine is a primergy 060 , with a pentium pro processor, aic7880
> scsi
> adapter and 4gb western digital scsi hard disk, now running with kernel
> 2.0.34.
>
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Hi,

I never installed this conf but I use aic7xxx driver on AHA-2940 so I
have some tips :

- Enable the aic BIOS load on startup;
- Disable BIOS translation for DOS drive > 1 Giga (lilo doesn't like
this)
- Verify the terminations (controller and entire chain :
remember : only the first and last device should be terminated, do the
termination jumper or software that comes with your device)

Hope it helps,

Sergio Pires

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