Re: CVS GNUMach works with Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter, tarball's does not

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:22:54PM +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:19:17AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:24:07PM +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
> > > As I wrote my system with only SCSI disk and 2940U adapter doesn't work 
> > > with
> > > Hurd.  While searching Internet for some advice I just checkout CVS 
> > > GNUMach
> > > and compile it with only --enable-aic7xxx.  And it works!
> > 
> > Ok. We do --enable-aic7xxx, but obviously the order of auto detection and
> > the bunch of other drivers messes things up for adaptec. Well, I don't have
> > a solution for that, other than probably providing two kernels, or shuffling
> > the order of autodetection around.
> 
> I don't know if the order will change anything: 2940U is detected correctly
> but it hangs after loading the sequence instructions (I don't remember the
> exact phrase).  How the order of detections imply that?  Or perhaps some
> other SCSI driver partially initialize the card and this mess the things for
> aic7xxx?

It must be something like this, because the drivers in the tar file and in
CVS are exactly the same. Trying to detect all hardware on boot has a track
record of being prone to subtle errors (on Linux, too). Blame this to messy
PC hardware interfaces/devices and their creators.

Marcus

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