The aic7xxx driver included with dev-sources2.6.7-r14 is broken and no longer brings up my scsi hard drive. The new aic7xxx driver finds the drive but then barfs when trying to create /dev/sda. The old aic7xxx driver finds my PCI card, but fails to recognize my drive. When I get to init, the new driver complains that /dev/sda is not a block device. Strangely enough, I then cannot load up my usbnet driver. The old driver just locks the kernel hard when I get to the UHCI usb module. The new driver works fine with a vanilla 2.6.6 kernel, which makes me believe that the problem lies with gentoo's 2.6.7 patchset. Actually, even the vanilla 2.6.7 kernel never worked on my computer. Grrrrr... Please see the following links for dmesg, pci and emerge info. dmesg.new is with the new driver, old with old, and working is a reference dmesg output generated by my working 2.6.6 vanilla kernel. http://bkreulen.servebeer.com:8080/gentoo/dmesg.new http://bkreulen.servebeer.com:8080/gentoo/dmesg.old http://bkreulen.servebeer.com:8080/gentoo/dmesg.working http://bkreulen.servebeer.com:8080/gentoo/emerge.info http://bkreulen.servebeer.com:8080/gentoo/lspci Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Compile a gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r14 kernel and load it 2. 3. Actual Results: See "Details" section Expected Results: It should work Athlon XP 2600 512 DDR Asus A7N8X-X SCSI HD: IBM-ESXS Model: ST373405LC Adaptec AHA-2940U
Does the problem exist on a clean 2.6.8.1 kernel from kernel.org?
PEBKC. I'm going to go ahead and close this one, the system is now working....
