Re: tlug: serious aic7xxx driver bug

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Christopher Sekiya wrote:

> 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>

you can't have 'told me so' about a problem that was just recently
created.  I, actually, should be saying, I 'told' you so, since the
problem didn't exist in the PAST.  You could however, say, "I'm telling
you so", or "I will tell you so", since the problem exists now and
possibly in the future :)

> 
> 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.
> 

I'll try it.  Don't have much of a way of testing it except by installing
it on the server, but .. hm, maybe I'll get my friend to be my guinea pig
:)

> -- Chris
> 
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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