Date: 17 Feb 1998 11:31:17 +0100 From: Benedikt Stockebrand <benedikt@devnull.ruhr.de> To: "Victor Ponomarev" <vick@unet.ru> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable Message-ID: <87pvkmtte2.fsf@devnull.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: "Victor Ponomarev"'s message of "Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:36:07 %2B0300" References: <199802170801.LAA11629@ns.unet.ru>
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"Victor Ponomarev" <vick@unet.ru> 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.
> The SCSI terminators is fine (AHA is in automatic mode).
In case of doubt, use real terminators.
Ben
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