Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Martin Webster <mwebster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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