From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 2:24:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7662937B417 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 02:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAFAOD250573; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:24:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <006b01c16dbf$ac6ab520$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Andrew C. Hornback" , "Charles Burns" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <005501c16db9$8ee47a00$6600000a@ach.domain> Subject: Re: SCSI card recommendations Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:24:06 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew writes: > Anthony, it wasn't connected to a Seagate drive > by any chance, was it? The 29160N wasn't connected to anything when I installed it. It generated errors before I had a chance to try to connect it to anything. I was wary when I saw that I had only a 32-bit PCI slot for the 64-bit card (although the documentation says that this is supposed to work). I think that the card is just too fast or something, however. When I saw that it wasn't on the supported hardware list, I decided to do the easy thing and install a less fancy SCSI card (since I only wanted it for external peripherals, not disks). The machine has only one disk, and it's IDE, unfortunately. > I somehow find that hard to believe, unless you > tried to put this card in maybe a 486 or a > Socket 5 Pentium... Spurious interrupts and parity errors are typical symptoms of speed discrepancies. I rather doubted that a brand-new Adaptec card in a brand-new PC would have any hardware failures. > It's not on the hardware list (I actually had to > confirm that, since I didn't believe it), but this > card has been running under FreeBSD since > version 4.2, possibly earlier. It may work on faster configurations, or different motherboards, or something. I couldn't get it to work, and my questions to the lists went unanswered, as I recall, so I gave up. I should not have bought such a fancy card in the first place--it cost almost as much as the PC. > I'll agree with that. That's why I have a spare > 40 MB/s chain for external devices on my workstation. Unfortunately, my inexpensive PC had no SCSI capability included, so I had to buy a card. In fact, it had no network card, either, so I had to buy that as well (3Com). It did come with a modem card, which was useless to me, so I pulled that and put the NIC in its place (both PCI). So now I've added a brand-new 29160 and a brand-new internal PCI modem card to my ever-growing stash of unused hardware. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message