[Bug 54897] Re: [Bug 54897] Re: SCSI / AIC7xxx / Tape Library Problem

Thomas Black thomas at babelgeek.com
Tue Aug 8 16:59:16 UTC 2006


Hi Ben

> Did this work prior to breezy using linux?

Yes, we started using this solution in Debian Woody days and as far as I 
remember it was still working with Ubuntu Hoary although I wasn't 
involved for some time after that. However, I can confirm that it ran as 
a stable solution for many years under Debian / Ubuntu. I read that the 
AIC7xxx driver was rewritten in the recent 2.6 kernel series, which 
could possibly be the cause. I did try the aic7xxx_old module but didn't 
get much further.

If it'll help in encouraging this bug to be tracked down, I can add that 
we're experiencing this in Mark Shuttleworth's Cape Town data centre 
(the country club) which is now unfortunately without off-site backup.

I really don't know what else to try apart from roll-back to a 2.4 
series kernel or early 2.6. Given that I think it's an AIC7xxx issue 
I've also tried to source some non-adaptec SCSI cards to test but 
haven't had much luck with that yet.

Regards

-Thomas

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