From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Oct 5 17:30:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15359 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bvainc.com (mail1.bvainc.com [208.145.185.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA15179 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from SWorthington@hsag.com) Received: from BVA-Message_Server by bvainc.com with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 05 Oct 1998 16:57:08 -0700 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.2 Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 16:52:36 -0700 From: "Scott Worthington" To: kpielorz@tdx.co.uk Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, SteveFriedrich@hot-shot.com Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec AHA-2940xx -Reply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id RAA15190 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pooling is an excellent idea. I have two AHA-2940UW boards, one "born-on" circa 1996 and the other "born-on" July 1998. The 1996 board shipped with 1.25, the 1998 with 1.34.3. So I have two test boards plus two 2940UA with a BIOS version (erg, I forgot it's version). Plus access to a FIC PA-2007 with Award BIOS, Two FIC PA-2011 with BIOS that I can switch from AMI to Award, and access to Dell (Pentium, Pentium Pro, Pentium II). I can bounce the card around to various machines, boot the FreeBSD / Linux Slackware boot-floppy and note the various problems. I noted my solution to my FIC PA-2011, and hopefully I have helped reduce some stress somewhere. Creating a Adaptec / Mainboard compatibility FAQ with all the details would be excellent--reducing the "waiting for scsi to settle" confusion. Interestingly, I found this problem to be the same with Linux, but I did not find any discussions of it through searching the www.dejanews.com archive. How many months are archived and searchable, I wonder? Great idea, what is your proposed next step? Tonight I will try upgrading my AHA-2940UW (that works as downgraded to 1.25) back to its 1.34.3 shipped version. (I just hate flashing, I hope it goes smoothly and the UPS holds on). I will note the problems and solutions with that flash. >>> Karl Pielorz October 5, 1998 3:35 pm >>> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Scott Worthington wrote: > Again, I hope this find helps others who run into the 'waiting for > scsi to settle' problem. Hi, Is this the problem whereby 'certain' machines with 'certain' aha2940's just sit there 'waiting for scsi to settle' (which if you leave them for like up to half an hour turns into errors like "board not responding" etc.?) I got caught with this one a while ago - and posted all my findings to the list (in a kind of summary)... If I dig them out - maybe we should pool them - do you have the board revisions / BIOS's on the Adaptec's etc. as well? Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message