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To: Jeff Lynch <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com>
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 and FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Jeff Lynch wrote:

> The only problems I've had with 2940UWs on fbsd2.1.5-2.2.1 have occurred
> when we mix wide/narrow devices on the host adapter or attach a narrow
> (of course) external tape drive. Leaving the bus all wide or all narrow
> and all internal has never given us problems.

The servers we have that keep blowing up have only a single internal DAT
on the narrow bus and a single internal UW HDD on the wide bus.  It most
common for a tape error to lock up the machine, but they also lock up
with the same symptoms when no backups are being done.