Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Apr 1996 01:47:40 -0700 | From | (Ben Wing) | Subject | Re: 1.3.88 and stability: Adaptec 2940 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960415170933.4864A-100000@hobbes.cc.ukans.edu>: |On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Laszlo Vecsey wrote: | |> I'm still having occasional SCSI lockups due to the Adaptec 2940. I've |> been trying with and without the aic7xxx=no_reset lilo commandline. I've |> checked my SCSI termination and so forth. A handful of people have |> complained about this card/problem, so my question is -- Does anyone out |> there have a stable Linux system using this card? | |Ever since I switched to the developer kernels, my system has been rock |solid using the 2940 drivers. I have 3 HDs, 1 DAT, and 1 CD-rom. I run |nightly backups and haven't had a hang in many many months. Using 1.2.13 |was terrible! Constant hangs, crashes, etc. The driver has come a long way!
I had almost no problems at all using a 2940 under 1.2.13 with the Nov 12 1995 driver. (Earlier drivers, esp. before June 26 1995, were quite unstable.)
1.3.84 actually seems a bit less reliable -- every so often the machine won't boot, complaining about "SCSI timeout" problems. This usually only happens right after I turn the machine on after it's been cold for awhile, and rebooting usually fixes the problem. Once it gets past the bootup sequence, however, it works fine.
I have had occasional lockups (with the Nov 12 driver) when doing backups to tape. This may be fixed in the 1.3.84 driver.
Note that proper termination is *extremely* important; if you don't get this right, things will majorly fuck up.
ben -- "... then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -- Anais Nin
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