Problems with an AHA-2940 UW (PCI)

[Andy Kennedy]

Slackware 3.5????  What device(s) do you have hung from your card?  did
you diable the Wide negotiation?  That is what I had to do with the
orignial driver (not written by doug) and haven't changed it (yes, I'm a
coward).  You might want to try doing that.  I used to get that message
when I used an inexpensive 58pin ribbon cable for my wide HDs.  Could be
a bad cable???


wuff,
andy

On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Anthony Spataro wrote:

> I recently bought an Adaptec 2940 UltraWide adapter and I get the following
> messages when I try to boot using a Slackware 3.5, Red Hat or Debian boot
> disk (all using the 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 kernel):
> 
> >scsi: 1 hosts
> >(scsi 0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices
> >SCSI: aborting command du to timeout: pid 1, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
> >lun0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00
> >SCSI host 0 abort (pid 1) time out - trying harder
> >SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
> 
> This problem appears to be very similar or identical to the problem
> reported by Ulrich Hansmair <ulrich at hansmair.m.uunet.de> in an earlier
> message to the list, with the exception that earlier in the boot sequence,
> I see output saying something along the lines of "Downloading sequencer
> code...406 instructions downloaded" followed by "Failed initialization of
> WD-7000 card!" I don't know if Ulrich had a similar message.
> 
> He suggested I disable SCSI BIOS in the SCSI adapter's setup and try to
> boot. I did so and the same error occured. I know very little about SCSI
> and I have only one hard drive, so there's no way for me to install Linux
> to compile a new kernel or a new version of the aic7xxx driver...in short,
> I'm in a jam. I know I'm coming to you without a clue, but I've been
> working on this problem for three weeks without progress, so I decided to
> break down and ask about it. Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
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