Re: tlug: serious aic7xxx driver bug

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> Under 2.0.33, which has a newer aic7xxx driver, it will hard-lock the
> machine under heavy load.  I had it happen on my server in the USA as did
> one of my friends... is there any kind of patch available to fix this?

<SHATNER>

Must ... NOT ... say ... I ... told ... you ... so ...

</SHATNER>

Look in ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx -- driver 5.0.9 was recently
released.  Reportedly it works very well, except when it doesn't (known
problems with 5.0.8 include sudden fallback to SYNC transfers when Zip
drive is accessed).

Haven't tried it myself.

-- Chris

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