Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: FlashPoint card hanging system (BT-950) | Date | Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:31:49 -0500 | From | Jim Niemira <> |
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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 -- Urmane Hendrake "Anti-wrinkle cream there may be, but urmane@urmane.org anti-fat-bastard cream there is not." http://www.urmane.org/~urmane Dave, The Full Monty
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