Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FlashPoint card hanging system (BT-950) | Date | Sat, 2 Oct 1999 03:20:00 -0500 (CDT) | From | (William Lash) |
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I have gotten a bit of help from Mylex Tech support. Jo suggested that I try updating the card BIOS to the latest version 1.41i. I have done that, and while I still get a couple of errors of the same type (stuck in the state BUS_FREE ) when I first start up, if I get past that (by mounting and unmounting a CD in my CDRW drive several times), it seems to work fine. I am currently burning a CD, and I have seen no errors through 95%, while last night, I got errors and an aborted operation in the first 1% (with the change I made to the driver to reset the card when it detected a stuck interrupt).
I think I will try adding delays where Leonard suggested, and see if it takes the problem away completely.
I guess I would suggest upgrading to the latest BIOS version to see if it helps. I had thought of doing this before, but didn't do it. I figured that since there was no real processor on the board, changing the bios wouldn't help. Perhaps, I just got lucky when I booted this time, or perhaps changing the BIOS really did help. I had 1.41d BIOS before.
Anyway, it is nice not to have to wait for my root partition to be checked every time the SCSI card has a problem.
Bill Lash welash@xnet.com
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