From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 19 01:42:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09686 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:42:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.unet.ru (root@ns.unet.ru [195.9.254.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09642 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:41:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vick@unet.ru) Received: from atom (atom.unet.ru [195.9.254.10]) by ns.unet.ru (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA02405 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:01:59 +0300 Message-Id: <199802191101.OAA02405@ns.unet.ru> From: "Victor Ponomarev" To: Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:41:27 +0300 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > >On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Benedict Stockebrand wrote: > >> "Victor Ponomarev" writes: >> >> > Hardware: [...] Adaptec 2940 Ultra (BIOS 1997), >> > >> > [snip] >> > >> > 2) I took a old AHA 2940 Ultra from my friend (BIOS 1996) . >> > Well! All is fine. But I'm not sure that trasfer rate was 20 Mbps on >> > SCSI bus. >> >> Could it be that the old one was a 2940 U but the new one a 2940 AU? >> IIRC the OpenBSD people had some nasty surprises with that --- the old >> 2940 U works, but the 2940 AU uses a "simplified" chipset and didn't >> work with their 2940 U-based drivers. >> > >I would concur with this. I have a number of 2940U boards that worked >fine, but I had to shelve an Adaptec 2940AU until the ahc driver was >updated (in 2.2.5 ?). The 2940AU works great now (2.2.5-RELEASE and >2.2.5-STABLE). > >Chuck > I have 2940U board with BIOS ver. 1.34. This card by default uses 10Mbps transfer rate. If I put transfer rate to 20Mbps except problem with istallation the other problem also appear. If I compile some huge ports or kernel the SCSI bus hungs up on timeout and system crushed. Sorry I don't write the died dump by pen. Are any suggetion? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message