SuSE Support of Adaptec AIC7XXX Driver
Hello, I have a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard that has SCSI built into it. The SCSI is Adaptec AIC7895. I am planning on installing and using SuSE, but am not sure I will be able to since I did not see support for the AIC7xxx SCSI driver on SuSE's web site. My CD ROM drives are both SCSI and I will need them. Is anybody running SuSE with a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard? Or, does anybody know if SuSE would recognize my SCSI controller? I don't want to buy it and not be able to use it if it won't work with my system. Thanks, Ryan
Ryan K.and Cecily J.Emily wrote:
Hello,
I have a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard that has SCSI built into it. The SCSI is Adaptec AIC7895. I am planning on installing and using SuSE, but am not sure I will be able to since I did not see support for the AIC7xxx SCSI driver on SuSE's web site. My CD ROM drives are both SCSI and I will need them. Is anybody running SuSE with a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard? Or, does anybody know if SuSE would recognize my SCSI controller? I don't want to buy it and not be able to use it if it won't work with my system.
Thanks,
Ryan
Its in the Linux kernel and should work, but without testing this on SuSE I cannot guarantee anything :-). Matt
I installed 6.1 with a Tyan MB with the same Adaptec chipset. It worked fine then so I would "assume" it works as good or better now. * Ryan K. and Cecily J. Emily (rcemily@iquest.net) [010901 13:05]: -> I have a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard that has SCSI built into it. The SCSI is Adaptec AIC7895. I am planning on installing and using ->SuSE, but am not sure I will be able to since I did not see support for the AIC7xxx SCSI driver on SuSE's web site. My CD ROM drives are both SCSI ->and I will need them. Is anybody running SuSE with a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard? Or, does anybody know if SuSE would recognize my SCSI ->controller? I don't want to buy it and not be able to use it if it won't work with my system. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org cat CE|ME|NT|XP > /dev/null
Dangerous assumption. I was running an adaptec 19160 (I think that was the model number. I don't have it in front of me at the moment), and everything was fine under 7.1 with the default 2.2 kernel and aic7xxx.o. With 7.2, however, the tape drive connected to it failed completely, sometimes taking the entire system down with it. I tried every permutation of 2.2 kernel, 2.4 kernel, aic7xxxx and aic7xxx_old. And nothing worked. The 7.1 kernel and module still did the thing. So I'd suggest a careful trial before going live, and if things fail, consider downgrading. Anders On Saturday 01 September 2001 22.09, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
I installed 6.1 with a Tyan MB with the same Adaptec chipset. It worked fine then so I would "assume" it works as good or better now.
* Ryan K. and Cecily J. Emily (rcemily@iquest.net) [010901 13:05]:
-> I have a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard that has SCSI built into it. The SCSI is Adaptec AIC7895. I am planning on installing and using ->SuSE, but am not sure I will be able to since I did not see support for the AIC7xxx SCSI driver on SuSE's web site. My CD ROM drives are both SCSI ->and I will need them. Is anybody running SuSE with a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard? Or, does anybody know if SuSE would recognize my SCSI ->controller? I don't want to buy it and not be able to use it if it won't work with my system.
On Saturday 01 September 2001 04:16 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
Dangerous assumption. I was running an adaptec 19160 (I think that was the model number. I don't have it in front of me at the moment), and everything was fine under 7.1 with the default 2.2 kernel and aic7xxx.o. With 7.2, however, the tape drive connected to it failed completely, sometimes taking the entire system down with it. I tried every permutation of 2.2 kernel, 2.4 kernel, aic7xxxx and aic7xxx_old. And nothing worked. The 7.1 kernel and module still did the thing.
So I'd suggest a careful trial before going live, and if things fail, consider downgrading.
Gee... don't mention all this to my 19160 on the machine I am typing this.... Has always worked just fine. Perhaps you got bit by a bug between the aic7xxx driver and the older version (aic7xxx-old) but I've used them both. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 09/01/01 21:54 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise."
On Sunday 02 September 2001 03.55, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2001 04:16 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
Dangerous assumption. I was running an adaptec 19160 (I think that was the model number. I don't have it in front of me at the moment), and everything was fine under 7.1 with the default 2.2 kernel and aic7xxx.o. With 7.2, however, the tape drive connected to it failed completely, sometimes taking the entire system down with it. I tried every permutation of 2.2 kernel, 2.4 kernel, aic7xxxx and aic7xxx_old. And nothing worked. The 7.1 kernel and module still did the thing.
So I'd suggest a careful trial before going live, and if things fail, consider downgrading.
Gee... don't mention all this to my 19160 on the machine I am typing this.... Has always worked just fine.
Perhaps you got bit by a bug between the aic7xxx driver and the older version (aic7xxx-old) but I've used them both.
The hard drive worked, the tape drive didn't. It crashed hard whenever I tried anything more complex than 'mt status', and sometimes the whole system crashed hard when I ran a backup. I was told that adaptec had taken over development of aic7xxx, and that the _old was the old version, but both failed under both kernels in 7.2. As I said, the 7.1 kernel still worked.
On Sunday 02 September 2001 10:38 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 02 September 2001 03.55, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2001 04:16 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
Dangerous assumption. I was running an adaptec 19160 (I think that was the model number. I don't have it in front of me at the moment), and everything was fine under 7.1 with the default 2.2 kernel and aic7xxx.o. With 7.2, however, the tape drive connected to it failed completely, sometimes taking the entire system down with it. I tried every permutation of 2.2 kernel, 2.4 kernel, aic7xxxx and aic7xxx_old. And nothing worked. The 7.1 kernel and module still did the thing.
So I'd suggest a careful trial before going live, and if things fail, consider downgrading.
Gee... don't mention all this to my 19160 on the machine I am typing this.... Has always worked just fine.
Perhaps you got bit by a bug between the aic7xxx driver and the older version (aic7xxx-old) but I've used them both.
The hard drive worked, the tape drive didn't. It crashed hard whenever I tried anything more complex than 'mt status', and sometimes the whole system crashed hard when I ran a backup. I was told that adaptec had taken over development of aic7xxx, and that the _old was the old version, but both failed under both kernels in 7.2. As I said, the 7.1 kernel still worked.
Have you tried changing aic7xxx to aic7xxx=no_reset. This stops the machine hanging when the bus is reset. M
On Sunday 02 September 2001 16.34, Martin Webster wrote:
On Sunday 02 September 2001 10:38 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 02 September 2001 03.55, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2001 04:16 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
Dangerous assumption. I was running an adaptec 19160 (I think that was the model number. I don't have it in front of me at the moment), and everything was fine under 7.1 with the default 2.2 kernel and aic7xxx.o. With 7.2, however, the tape drive connected to it failed completely, sometimes taking the entire system down with it. I tried every permutation of 2.2 kernel, 2.4 kernel, aic7xxxx and aic7xxx_old. And nothing worked. The 7.1 kernel and module still did the thing.
So I'd suggest a careful trial before going live, and if things fail, consider downgrading.
Gee... don't mention all this to my 19160 on the machine I am typing this.... Has always worked just fine.
Perhaps you got bit by a bug between the aic7xxx driver and the older version (aic7xxx-old) but I've used them both.
The hard drive worked, the tape drive didn't. It crashed hard whenever I tried anything more complex than 'mt status', and sometimes the whole system crashed hard when I ran a backup. I was told that adaptec had taken over development of aic7xxx, and that the _old was the old version, but both failed under both kernels in 7.2. As I said, the 7.1 kernel still worked.
Have you tried changing aic7xxx to aic7xxx=no_reset. This stops the machine hanging when the bus is reset.
M
No, it stops the bus from resetting. And sure, it would perhaps avoid system crashes, but it doesn't help me get the backups down on tape. Anders
On Saturday 01 September 2001 7:55 pm, Ryan K.and Cecily J.Emily wrote:
I have a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard that has SCSI built into it. The SCSI is Adaptec AIC7895. I am planning on installing and using SuSE, but am not sure I will be able to since I did not see support for the AIC7xxx SCSI driver on SuSE's web site. My CD ROM drives are both SCSI and I will need them. Is anybody running SuSE with a Supermicro P6DBS motherboard? Or, does anybody know if SuSE would recognize my SCSI controller? I don't want to buy it and not be able to use it if it won't work with my system.
The aic7xxx module is built into the 2.4 kernel. SuSE 7.2 should pick this up automatically when you start the installation (I know this from experience). If it doesn't, you can specify the module/hardware driver during the install (linuxrc). Just aic7xxx on its own will suffice. There is an IRQ hack for Tyan II mainboards (aic7xxx=7895_irq_hack:-1) but I doubt that you need this. M
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