On Mon, 8 May 2000, andy thomas wrote:
> this problem out, I thought I'd mention that I'm beginning to wonder about
> the general stability of Adaptec's current PCI SCSI cards. I'm using a
Me too.
> 29160 in a Tyan Trinity S1590S motherboard with 500 MHz AMD K6/2 and
> running kernel 2.2.13 with the aic7xxx module. It all works fine and I've
> not had any problems at all with my mix of Quantum Atlas IV on the ultra
> 160 port and three Seagate 1 Gbyte drives plus an old 3.4x Toshiba CD-ROM
> on the SCSI 2 port.
You are a lucky guy. I'm less successful. As my time permits I'll try to
get the specs from Adaptec. Either the card or the linux driver is a pile
of shit. The driver source looks completely crap to me compared with other
drivers I know (I fixed and enhanced the 174x driver ages ago). I don't
know if the reason is a crappy card (I need the specs for that). If so,
I'll try to dump it. But you virtually get no other SCSI cards here in
Germany (at least not as fast cards).
What looks odd to me is that there are still rather drastical bugs found
and fixed in the aix??? driver also it is out soo long. Major problem
seems the lack of any firmware on it (Hmm.. or is the linux driver just
too stupid to use it??). It also seems the maintainer has not enough time
to deal with the problems from my correspondence with him.
> But getting this card's BIOS to start properly is a problem - if the
> system is rebooted or powered up from cold, it will hang just after the
> "press Ctl A for ScsiSelect" message. The only way out is to press the
I had a similar problem with a MOD. When there was no media in (DEVICE NOT
READY) the power up device scan hung when having detected the MOD (but not
before). I could solve the problem by setting the BIOS not to try
negotiating anything beyond Fast SCSI-2 (10MHz) with the MOD (why would
it? It was on the the SCSI narrow port?). Did you try to restrict the
rate for your CD (all devices?)
Michael.
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