Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:18:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org> Cc: "Barrett G. Lyon" <blyon@theshell.com>, David Bushong <david@bushong.net>, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AIC7892 / Adaptec 29160 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009041607480.26642-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009041600360.1079-100000@picnic.chuckr.org>
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On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: >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. This is quite frustrating to me. I've never been very impressed with Tekram's offerings or Mylex's scsi-only(buslogic) range. I've always bought Adaptec because they always seem to just work. I can't fathom what could be so different about this card. It's still a 78xx series chip. The same revision of the ahc driver runs flawlessly on my onboard AIC7895s and my AHA2940U 32-bit PCI cards which are in most of my equipment. This motherboard and the 29160 I've got are the first two U160 products I've ever bought. I don't even have U160 drives hooked up to them. This is with standard LVD 80 equipment I'm seeing these problems. It can't be a problem with the recent addition of U160 speeds then. I'm gonna try some current snaps tomorrow and see if they help. If not, would the ahc hackers tell me what info they need from the machine to debug the problem? If this drags out too long I may have to just return the machine and look for something with a different 78xx revision but before I do I'd at least like to get the developers some good info. Let me know. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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