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Date:      Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:03:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org>
To:        "Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon@theshell.com>
Cc:        "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, David Bushong <david@bushong.net>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AIC7892 / Adaptec 29160
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009041600360.1079-100000@picnic.chuckr.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009040103290.4485-100000@arsenic.theshell.com>

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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Barrett G. Lyon wrote:

> | That's not good news at all for a $500 motherboard or $200 64-bit PCI
> | SCSI controller.  I've seen plenty of posts in the archives from people
> | with working 29160s.  There's has got to be a fix to my problem.
> | Hopefully somebody out there has an idea.
> 
> I did get the 29160 working with our system but it would crash
> randomly.  We had to remove the card from the system and move to a symbios
> U2W.  I guess it's just a card, but I did get pissed with Adaptec.  Maybe
> it's not their fault, but it is fun to point fingers.

I've been watching this thread *very* closely, because I've been unable to
get my new IBM ultra160 drive to boot using the 29160.  I'd thought that
maybe it was a thing that would be fixed by using an IBM-supplied utility
to zero the disk, but that's not been the case.  I'm reluctantly ready to
try another controller now.

Does that sound like a reasonable thing to try?  Could you give me a
recommendation of another controller, and tell me where you bought it?

Thanks.

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Chuck Robey             | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org| electronics, communications, and signal processing.

New Year's Resolution:  I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up
fictitious words in the dictionary.
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