From owner-aic7xxx Tue Mar 17 08:44:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA21366 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:44:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dledford.dialnet.net (root@dledford.dialnet.net [206.65.249.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21287 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:44:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dledford@dialnet.net) Received: from dialnet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dledford.dialnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA02557; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:43:33 -0600 Message-ID: <350EA835.2B15D1BF@dialnet.net> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:43:33 -0600 From: Doug Ledford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.33 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yuri mironoff CC: "Robin M. Braun" , aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hangups with adaptec AHA-2940 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk yuri mironoff wrote: > > Hello, > > I have the same setup (drive, controller, kernel) and it works just > fine. Check to see that you have 2940 bios v1.25 and that your drive and > controller are properly terminated. Also make sure you don't have to deep of a tagged queue depth on that Quantum drive. The Viking drives have been known to do bad things when hit with large queue depths. > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Robin M. Braun wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Help please. > > > > I have a Linux system running on a dual Pentium II motheboard (FX > > chipset) with 128M of memory. I have tried a 2.1.89 kernel but usually > > run a 2.0.33 kernel. I get periodic SCSI timeouts with the machine > > becoming unusable. This usually happens if I try to untar a large > > compressed file. > > > > My kernel startup message is "aic7xxx=extended,no_reset,ultra,verbose" > > > > I have a Quantum Viking 4.4GB drive. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Rob > > > > Robin M. Braun ZR1RMB > > Dept. of Electrical Engineering > > University of Cape Town. > > http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~rmbraun > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message -- Doug Ledford Opinions expressed are my own, but they should be everybody's. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message