Comment 3 for bug 54897

Hi Ben

> Did this work prior to breezy using linux?

Yes, we started using this solution in Debian Woody days and as far as I
remember it was still working with Ubuntu Hoary although I wasn't
involved for some time after that. However, I can confirm that it ran as
a stable solution for many years under Debian / Ubuntu. I read that the
AIC7xxx driver was rewritten in the recent 2.6 kernel series, which
could possibly be the cause. I did try the aic7xxx_old module but didn't
get much further.

If it'll help in encouraging this bug to be tracked down, I can add that
we're experiencing this in Mark Shuttleworth's Cape Town data centre
(the country club) which is now unfortunately without off-site backup.

I really don't know what else to try apart from roll-back to a 2.4
series kernel or early 2.6. Given that I think it's an AIC7xxx issue
I've also tried to source some non-adaptec SCSI cards to test but
haven't had much luck with that yet.

Regards

-Thomas

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