Re: New Alphas

["Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon netpr com>]

>The aic7xxx in the alpha patches 2.0.34 and 20.035-2 crashes my
>machines when I use 2 disks intensively at once, and on some machines,
>it refuses to do "mkswap /dev/sda2". I have yet to have time to try
>either the latest or the one in 2.0.36pre17.

I had the same problem, take the 2.0.35 source tree, apply the every so
popular "Jay's Kernel Patch" for the 2.0.35 kernel, then apply the updated
aic7xxx driver.

The aic7xxx driver I use that works awesome for me is:
aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre15-2.0.35.patch

Anyway.. good luck 

-Barrett


--
Barrett G. Lyon                        PGP: www.netpr.com/pgpkeys
Data & Network Security Consultant     Fax: 310-737-0196
Network Presence, LLC                Email: blyon@netpr.com
--