Hi. Sorry for the huge CC but you've probably proposed to help if you crept onto that list.
I am hoping to actually *make* progress on this issue. The status at this point is that we have two attempts to take later drivers and patch the 2.0.36 (debian 3) source for these. Karl's approach is available at <URL:ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/> and desribed at <URL:http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-testing-9904/msg00059.html>. Marcelo's approach is, in his own words, take a 2.0.36 kernel, configured the same way the rescue floppy is, but using the aic driver version 5.1.15. As I understand it, that is not a clean patch. Also, Marcelo lost the source but could probably reconstruct it. I think an alternative approach, describe by Ossama at <URL:http://www.debian.org/~ossama/DELL6300>, is to actually keep the debian 2.0.36-3 kernel, but one that *only* supports the aic7xxxx controllers. This might solve the problem for a different subset of users -- I have heard reported cases where the WD scsi controller probes hung the adaptecs. What I need, for the boot floppies, is simply someone to hand me a kernel image and a patch (basically, the compiled kernel, the patch against the debian 2.0.36, and the kernel config used to build the kernel). It is *not* the case that we necessarily need to make this 2.0.36-4.... if we need to, we can simply add another rescue/drivers set like we do for tecra. I am happy to do whatever I can to help, that is, nudge people along and make a pest of myself -- however, I don't have an problematic adaptec controller so cannot neither test nor certify fixes. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
