Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:28:31 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Simerson <matt@michweb.net> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2940U2W supported? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.990305112731.15359P-100000@ns2.michweb.net> In-Reply-To: <199903051625.RAA29005@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Kenneth D. Merry wrote in list.freebsd-scsi: > > Vince Gonzalez wrote... > > > How well are the Adaptec 2940U2W controllers supported? Are the controllers > > > based on the 7896 supported as well? Any opinions? I'm looking into some > > > of the motherboards with integrated SCSI, and I'm curious to hear anyone's > > > experience. > > > > They're both supported and should both work fine. > > I'm afraid they do not work fine. :-( > > Every once in a while, it _hangs_ forever when it displays > "waiting for SCSI devices to settle" during boot (I'd guess > it happens at every 10th reboot or something like that). > This happens both with the Adaptec 2940-U2W and with the > onboard Adaptec U2W of an ASUS P2B-LS, using 3.1-RELEASE. I can confirm this behavior. > It's extremely annoying, because you cannot reboot such a > machine remotely and be sure that it comes up again. :-( > It renders the Adaptec controllers essentially unusable for > production use. Why do you have to reboot production servers? > Is this bug known? Maybe even fixed in -STABLE? > Should I file a PR? Anything else I could do? It's not fixed in -STABLE. I'm tracking -STABLE. Matt `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Matt Simerson http://users.michweb.net/~matt MichWeb Inc. - President http://www.michweb.net The Art Farm - Technical Wizard http://www.theartfarm.com ISP/C - Treasurer http://www.ispc.org No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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