On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:51 -0600, Kevin K wrote: > I'm in the process up converting from RHEL 2.1 to RHEL 4, and have > encountered an issue with the aic7xxx_old driver (5.2.6, as provided > with the RH 2.4.9-34 kernel, and with 2.6.15.5 kernel). > > The SCSI card is an Adaptec 2940U card. > > Namely, an old SCSI device isn't being seen very often. Maybe 1 in > 10 times loading the module. Under the 2.4.18 kernel, it was always > seen using this driver except in the case of hardware/cabling issues. > > With the same hardware and OS, but using the new driver (aic7xxx), > the hardware is consistently seen. well... sounds you have a solution right there... ;) the _old driver isn't really actively maintained anymore since... a long time. At least the "new" one has been getting maintenance - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
