I once had a trouble with an Adaptec EISA card. FreeBSD was no problem but the resc. disc did not work.
The solution I used was to hand roll a new resc disc and setting the delay after SCSI reset to 15 sec. In today's resc disc's it is already set to 15 sec, so this would not be a solution for John. But what he could do is to try a similar dist./OS and when he has something that works, we can start looking at the differences and finding a solution. So, I suggest he try other boot/resc./etc. discs from e.g. FreeBSD, Slackware, etc. Old or new does not really matter. He could also check the Adaptec BIOS settings (press C-A at boot). Remove equipment from the SCSI bus, make sure it is correctly terminated (if you can talk with the devices from the BIOS it should be correct). Chio, /Karl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Hammar Aspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 +46 173 140 57 S-742 94 Östhammar Professional Linux Solutions Sweden +46 70 511 97 84 (mobile) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 18 Aug 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > "John Cuson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i tried both rescue disks (non-eata-dma and only-aic7xxx) and in > > each case the machine locked after resetting the two scsi channels. > > here are some of the values from the error page...i didn't copy out > > the stack or call trace, but if you need them let me know. a > > cursory perusal of the page suggests that the values were the same > > after each lockup, but there may have been some differences that i > > didn't spot. > > Yikes, so this looks like a completely different Adaptec problem ... > Is this for the i386 architecture? I assume so. > > Could someone from the testing group that knows about Adaptec check > out the log on Bug# 41814 and see what they think? > > I wonder whether you could also try the *extremely* experimental > 2.2.11 disks at <http://www.debian.org/~joeyh/boot-floppies/>? > > John, the only immediate advice I can give you is to try to replace > the kernel on the rescue disk with a hand-rolled one for your > system.... > > -- > .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
