AEC62XX Driver: Can ANYONE Help!?

[four of six defective]

If it is a Rev A g3 you may have a problem.
I have one and have not been able to change any
hardware other than the cd drive.  It has been nothing
but trouble.  In fact I am about to put it out to pasture.


Corbett Battaile wrote:

>Hmmm, interesting...
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>In addition to the AEC6280M, I have two nearly identical PC cards based on
>the PDC20269 chipset (one card is Promise-branded, the other Maxtor), and
>neither seem to function properly in the G3/BW. It's very likely that I'm
>screwing something up here, or that there's some conflict with other
>hardware.
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>Do you have any other PCI cards installed? What PCI slot is the Promise 
>card installed in?
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>Thanks,
>- Corbett
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>On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Henry A. Leinhos wrote:
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>>Corbett Battaile writes: 
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>>>Oh well, more tinkering I suppose. I plan to try the ACard in a different 
>>>machine (G4/GigE) and also plan to try a Promise-based card in the G3/BW. 
>>>Failing all that, I'll probably have to resort to attaching the IDE drives 
>>>to the internal ATA/33 and booting off a SCSI card.
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>>I've got a Promise UltraDMA card in my G3/BW and it seems to work ok with 
>>2.4.20 kernels as well as the current YDL4 kernel (but you can't boot with 
>>it because the card BIOS is for PCs).  I can even do MOL using the Promise 
>>card. 
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>>Henry 
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