Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 23:04:40 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: dakott@alpha.delta.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542i Performance on -stable [was Re: SCSI Controller] Message-ID: <199808252104.XAA01621@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199808251858.NAA00795@detlev.UUCP> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Aug 25, 98 01:58:19 pm"
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As Joel Ray Holveck wrote... > > I did have some strange kernel panics when I installed my hardrive > > in front of the CDROM that previously had occupied the bus alone. > > The drive would log timeout errors. Then, as now, my root > > partition/swap et. al was on this drive, the kernel would panic. > > Also, sporadically, the drive would load the kernel sucessfully for > > booting, but would just hang when the kernel attempted to mount the > > root partition. I configured the hardrive to supply the bus > > termination, instead of the CDROM, as well as recompiling my kernel > > sans the "TUNE_1542" option, and I haven't had a problem since. > > Many 1542s (particularly the B series) were very sensitive to poor > cabling and termination problems. I think there were also cabling sensitivities in the C series(?). Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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