Re: Linux vs Blue Screen of Death (fwd)

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>>I have.  Under 2.0.33 the Adaptex 7xxx driver would freeze the 
machine
>>periodically.  And in the 2.2.x series until 2.2.12 I couldn't run 
SMP
>>on my Tyan motherboard,  it would freeze periodically.
>Man, what is it about aic-78xx??? Debian choked on it until I booted 
a
>kernel d/l'ed from the website that only had aic-78xx drivers: the
>profusion of SCSI drivers confused either the host card or the 
kernel.

Adaptec revises their firmware constantly, and often doesn't mention 
it.  sometimes it is difficult for a driver to determine what card 
EXACTLY that it is talking too.

>And it's a great adapter card, otherwise, and since then. Windos, 
OS/2,
>Linux, works great -- just that one install. Debian stomped on my 
partitions
>like a six year-old on Matchbox cars in a sandbox. :)

It is a great card,  all my servers use that card and once they get 
going it never stops (except back in the 2.0.x days).  My new 
Netfinity servers have IBM Server Raid (IPS) controllers and those 
seem to work very well right out of the gate.