Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Alvin Austin wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm trying to install the latest cooker onto a SCSI-only machine > > (even the CDROM is SCSI). The machine has an adaptec AIC-7895 > > host adaptor on the motherboard, which *requires* the aic7xxx_old > > driver. Unfortunately, this is not an option in expert mode (only > > the aic7xxx driver is given as an option). The machine hangs > > badly when the aic7xxx driver tries to load. > > > > AFAICR the aic7xxx_old is *only* necessary if you haven't updated your > firmware. And, IIRC, all cards that used this driver can have their > firware updated. The inclusion of the aic7xxx_old driver was only to tide > people over while they got around to updating their firmware.
If this damn kernel could tell us in the syslog that the firmware was not updated and we need to use aic7xxx_old instead, we could do that automatically :/... -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
