[ILUG] Little SCSI problem for you

[Timothy Murphy]

On Wed 29 Jun 2005 16:43, Conor Wynne wrote:
> > This means I cannot run the "official" Fedora kernels,
> > but have always had to run a compiled kernel,
> > and update rather then install the OS.
>
> Thats a modprobe.conf/modules.conf/initrd problem then.

I'm sure that's true, but what can I do about it?

> > I notice that with the aic7xxx driver in the kernel,
> > it takes a surprisingly long time - about 10 seconds -
> > to find the two SCSI discs.
>
> What is the version of aic7xxx then?

Do you mean the driver that comes with the kernel - 2.6.12 in my case?
Or do you mean the SCSI BIOS?


The BIOS version seems to be
====================================
[tim at alfred log]$ grep -i aic dmesg
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
        <Adaptec aic7890/91 Ultra2 SCSI adapter>
        aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs
====================================

As far as I can see, the code version 
(from /usr/src/linux-2.6.12/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/ ) is
	#define AIC7XXX_DRIVER_VERSION "6.2.36"

> > I'd like to submit a bugzilla,
> > but the last part of the oops messages which I see on the screen
> > are useless, I think -
> > the relevant error messages flashed by earlier.
> > (I thought I'd try to print them out,
> > but with udev the printer device is not defined until much later.)
>
> Redirect to another box then, you will need to do this with a serial cable
> as netdump will not have started at this stage.

I'll see if I can find an old serial cable -
not quite sure how to set up the serial reception on the other computer.

Any other suggestions ...


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