Hangups with adaptec AHA-2940

Doug Ledford dledford at dialnet.net
Tue Mar 17 08:44:51 PST 1998


yuri mironoff wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>    I have the same setup (drive, controller, kernel) and it works just
> fine. Check to see that you have 2940 bios v1.25 and that your drive and
> controller are properly terminated.

Also make sure you don't have to deep of a tagged queue depth on that
Quantum drive.  The Viking drives have been known to do bad things when hit
with large queue depths.

> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Robin M. Braun wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Help please.
> >
> > I have a Linux system running on a dual Pentium II motheboard (FX
> > chipset) with 128M of memory. I have tried a 2.1.89 kernel but usually
> > run a 2.0.33 kernel. I get periodic SCSI timeouts with the machine
> > becoming unusable. This usually happens if I try to untar a large
> > compressed file.
> >
> > My kernel startup message is "aic7xxx=extended,no_reset,ultra,verbose"
> >
> > I have a Quantum Viking 4.4GB drive.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > Robin M. Braun ZR1RMB
> > Dept. of Electrical Engineering
> > University of Cape Town.
> > http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~rmbraun
> >
> >
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