Re: aic79xx trouble

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:10:12PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >  The Adaptec Ultra320 cards (aic79xx) do not work reliably on Tyan Thunder
> > motherboards.
> 
> The U320 chips likely work a lot better now if you use driver version 2.0.12.
> The AMD chipsets seem to screw up split completions, and this version of
> the driver avoids the issue for the most common case of triggering the
> bug (transaction completion DMAs) by never crossing an ADB boundary with
> a single DMA.

Justin, 

Just out of curiosity, would you care to submit small fixes in separate
patches instead of a huge patch over a full -pre series 
(2.4.28-pre for example) ? 

Are distros using your updates ?

Thanks.
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