At 09:00 PM 3/13/1999 +0100, Olivier Ripoll wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I am trying to install slink for CDs (I' ve just burned them).
>During the boot process, I got the following (after indentification of
>cd and hard drive)
>
>(scsi0) found at PCI 11/0
>(scsi0) Wide channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code ... 419 instructions downloaded
>
>and the computer got frozen
>
>My computer is a Dell OptiPlex GXa :
>Pentium II 300Mhz
>96 Mb ram
>scsi adapter : Adaptec AHA-2940 (SCSI ID =7)
>network card : com fast etherlink XL PCI adapter 3c905
>cd-rom : don't know
>no pcmia
>
>I hope someone can help me ...
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Olivier Ripoll.
I had a similar problem; 3com 3C595-TX, AH-2940uw, Seagate drives.
Everything worked fine in DOS, Win95, and WinNT, but hamm, slink, potato,
and redhat choked.
I eventually went back and double-checked all my jumper settings (IDs,
termination, etc) on the drives/controller; found several things wrong (it
was a hand-me-down computer and it worked in Windows, so I assumed the
hardware settings were all correct; boy, was I wrong). So I fixed all the
jumper settings, and then tried again; still didn't work. So I removed
three of my four drives (identical 2GB drives), and tried, and it worked. I
put the other three drives back in, and it still worked. Huh, go figure. I
haven't had any trouble since.
