From owner-aic7xxx Mon Jan 18 18:33:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25472 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:33:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from meer.meer.net (meer.meer.net [140.174.164.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25465 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:33:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@meer.net) Received: from meer.net (pm3-p45.meer.net [140.174.164.205]) by meer.meer.net (8.9.1/8.9.1/meer) with ESMTP id SAA10817 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:32:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <36A3EF2D.751BB78E@meer.net> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:34:21 -0800 From: Andrew Sharp Organization: Sharp Programmers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.27 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: newbie's 2940U problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm new to this list -- hope I don't bore anyone. I've been trying to get a newer version of the linux kernel to work on my system, but so far have been stopped by problems with the scsi driver. adaptec 2940U PCI card, bios v. 1.23, internal and external drives. works great with linux2.0.27 kernel and NT4.0SP3. even with the card in "host adapter termination: auto" mode. doesn't work with 2.0.33 and, apparently, beyond. i haven't tried any kernels between 2.0.27 and 2.0.33. 2.0.36 definitely doesn't work. symptoms: it can't get the cabling right to save it's life. no matter what I do (host adapter termination {auto,disabled}, etc.), it won't see both the int and ext cables. it goes down hill from there, because I have drives both inside and out. after spending a great deal of time sextuple-checking cabling and termination issues, i tried to move all the drives to external; of course i don't have that many cases, but i thought I would install and then fix the problem, but that didn't work either. the driver eventually locks up the kernel anyway during the installation. this is 2.0.33 in 2.0.36, it won't make it past the 'downloading sequencer code' line that comes out during boot time. it freezes with the cursor blinking on the next line. i think it said 416 instructions downloaded or something like that. like i said, works great all day long with the 2.0.27 driver, but that kernel has other bugs that i need to get past, namely ide and vfat file system drivers that eventually pack up the kernel during moderate to heavy use. thanks for any help or advice, a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message