Re: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-07 Thread Tom Diehl
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, > Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > there is no such thing as "THE aic7xxx issue". aic7xxx is one of the > > first PCI cards that wants an interrupt so if it breaks it usually is a > > sign of broken interrup

RE: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 22:43, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 15:33, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > for some systems (Asus ones mostly) it seems to help to change the "MPS" > > setting in the bios. For others it helps if you boot with the "noapic" > > option, on

RE: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 15:33, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > for some systems (Asus ones mostly) it seems to help to change the "MPS" > setting in the bios. For others it helps if you boot with the "noapic" > option, on others the "apic" option seems to do magic instead... I have three SGI 1200 servers

RE: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 22:25, Kelly FitzGerald wrote: > Arjan, > Thank you so much for your information. Do you by chance know of any > of the hacks or workarounds that can help my sytem? for some systems (Asus ones mostly) it seems to help to change the "MPS" setting in the bios. For others

RE: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Kelly FitzGerald
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:30, Kelly FitzGerald wrote: > Hello All, > I just got the fancy pants version of Redhat 8.0. It appears to go > into a never ending plummeting halt when it comes time to install the > Adaptec aic7xxx d

Re: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there is no such thing as "THE aic7xxx issue". aic7xxx is one of the > first PCI cards that wants an interrupt so if it breaks it usually is a > sign of broken interrupt routing more than anything else. So, these machines

Re: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 19:30, Kelly FitzGerald wrote: > Hello All, > I just got the fancy pants version of Redhat 8.0. It appears to go > into a never ending plummeting halt when it comes time to install the > Adaptec aic7xxx driver. What can I do? I'm using a SS50 Space Walker > Shuttle

Re: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, "Joe D. Trent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have better luck with it, I'd appreciate hearing what you did. likewise, All our machines on the server farm run these cards and we have not been able to update one to test for this very reason. looks like the farm ma

RE: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Kelly FitzGerald
: Re: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted Yep, I ran into it too. I gave up. I tried loading the driver off the CD--there's an aic7xxx driver and an old_aic7xxx (or something like that) there, but the installer would come back with no driver in the found list. I tried putting the driver on diskette and te

Re: adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Joe D. Trent
Yep, I ran into it too. I gave up. I tried loading the driver off the CD--there's an aic7xxx driver and an old_aic7xxx (or something like that) there, but the installer would come back with no driver in the found list. I tried putting the driver on diskette and telling the installer I had drivers o

adaptec AIC7xxx revisted

2002-12-05 Thread Kelly FitzGerald
Hello All, I just got the fancy pants version of Redhat 8.0. It appears to go into a never ending plummeting halt when it comes time to install the Adaptec aic7xxx driver. What can I do? I'm using a SS50 Space Walker Shuttle with an adaptec 29160. In doing a cursory google search it ap