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SubjectRe: FlashPoint card hanging system (BT-950)
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William Lash spake, saying:
> 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.

Hm, my card is ~ 1.5 yrs old, and it's always been 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.

Ooh, you lobster; I still get a kernel panic when it tries to mount.
Out of curiosity, is your buslogic code compiled in or a module?

> I think I will try adding delays where Leonard suggested, and see
> if it takes the problem away completely.

Let me (us) know how it goes. I may have to resort to using IDE to
get my new mobo/cpu running, except that Western Digital just recalled
a million harddrives (check to see if yours is one!), and my source
doesn't have any ... :-(

> Anyway, it is nice not to have to wait for my root partition to be
> checked every time the SCSI card has a problem.

:-P

;-)
jim
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