Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:28:40 +0100 (CET) From: Robert Sander <gurubert@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Claus Beerta <claus.beerta@nwn.de>, "aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG" <aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Prblem with AIC7890 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981106232606.11238A-100000@defiant.robotroff> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9811051532260.6846-100000@kabal.redhat.com>
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On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Doug Ledford wrote: > On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Claus Beerta wrote: > > > Hi, i have a Adaptec 7890AB Chipset on my Asus P2B-S Mainboard, and > > i have several problems with intense disk access. > > After a while of Disk access the complete System halts, my HD Led is > > turning steady red, and syslog shows messages like: > > SCSI Host 0 abort .... resetting > > blah blah ... SCSI bus is being reset. > > after this reset it works fine again. Until the next disk attack. > > Is this due to alpha stage of the drivers, or my Termination (i can't > > imagine, winblows runs fine and no file errors at all) > > > Setup: 1 Quantum Fireball SE 3.1 GB > > 2 HP C3323-3 1 GB HD > > 1 Plextor 12/20 SCSI Drive > > All normal 50 Pin SCSI II Drives, no UW SCSI at all. > > Your problem is to be considered normal with all of these drives sharing > the same SCSI bus (mainly due to brain damage in the drive firmware, these > drives get very pissy when the SCSI bus is actually busy). I used to use > this exact combination of drives (Fireball + HP C3323A) to force resets on > a regular basis. I have an IBM DCAS-34330W hanging at the onboard Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI controller of the Gigabyte GA-686DLX. With Linux 2.1.126 SMP I get the same timeouts, but they don't clear themselves, I have to reboot very hardly. Greetings Robert Sander "Is it Friday yet?" @Home http://home.pages.de/~gurubert pgp available there To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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