Sad: lucent ISA-PCMCIA adapter problems with aic78xx scsi driver 

Forum: PCMCIA Installation and Configuration Issues
Date: 2000, Mar 27
From: Douglas S. J. De Couto decouto

Hi, I am having problems getting my lucent ISA-PCMCIA adapter to work on my PC. The driver seems to load fine, but all disk operations time out after that. The ISA card is from lucent and uses a Vadem 469 chip, and is at i/o address 0x3e0. my kernel is 2.2.14, and my pcmcia version is 3.1.13 i use redhat 6.2 I have an adaptec aic 7896/7 on my motherboard, and i use the aic78xx driver as a kernel module. after loading the pcmcia driver, the next part in the boot process is to run the inet script (S50inet), whereupon the computer hangs and the aic78xx driver periodically prints a message reporting a timeout. this happens with and without irg scanning enabled in the pcmcia driver options, and with and without a lucent wavelan ieee pcmcia card installed in the ISA adapter. without the pcmica driver i have no problems with my scsi. i am sorry, my logs disappeared as i had to hit the reset switch to reboot, and the fsck wasn't very nice... i see some people have had i/o port problems, i have yet to try blocking out i/o ports (those other people's problems seemed to be related to having a card in the slight, my problem happens either way). here is some output from my system with the card installed, but not running the driver: ------------------- % cat /proc/ioports 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) 1050-1057 : ide0 1058-105f : ide1 1080-109f : Intel Speedo3 Ethernet 1400-14be : aic7xxx 1800-18be : aic7xxx ---------------------------- % cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 61902 49995 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 133 119 IO-APIC-edge keyboard 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 12: 110 19 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu 14: 3 3 IO-APIC-edge ide0 19: 1890 1860 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx, aic7xxx 21: 1474 1459 IO-APIC-level Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 Ethernet NMI: 0 ERR: 0 i would be happy to hear of anyone else with a similar problem or a similar setup. thanks, Douglas

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More: no more disk problems.... Re: Sad: lucent ISA-PCMCIA adapter problems with aic78xx scsi driver (Douglas S. J. De Couto) Date: 2000, Mar 28 From: Douglas S. J. De Couto decouto

hi. i told the driver to exclude the ioports where my scsi driver lives (in config.opts), and my machine boots fine now. i.e. # avoid adaptec adapter ports exclude port 0x1400-0x18be  however, i think the wavelan driver doesn't work on the smp, as i get crashes when using the wireless tools. but that's not a pcmcia problem. thanks for a great package. d

1. Actually this is a bug in the aic7xxx driver by David Hinds, 2000, Mar 30

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