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It was the software drivers for the 3940 that I was referring to,
not the cards themselves :-)
<p>Nick
<p>Ivan Kohler wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I am using 3940s (specifically, two 3940UWs and a
3940AUW). I don't think
<br>all 3940s are broken. On the other hand, had I not watched a
hang-on-boot
<br>problem follow a card between several machines (but only with 2.2.10
<br>kernel - the "broken" card worked fine with 2.2.7 kernels), I may not
have
<br>sent it back and gotten a working one.
<p>On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:00:32AM +0100, Nick Taylor wrote:
<br>> Hi
<br>>
<br>> This sounds suspiciously like the problem that I have been having
with 3940s. I believe that
<br>> the current aic drivers are broken for 3940s - As soon as I try to
use 2 hds at the same time
<br>> (either on the same or different channels) my machine hangs. I am
currently using only one
<br>> drive on the 3940 and the others on a 2940 which is fine.
<br>>
<br>> Hoping for someone to address this problem soon.
<br>>
<br>> Nick
<br>> ----
<br>>
<br>> Jeffrey Veiss wrote:
<br>>
<br>> > Calling all SCSI experts:
<br>> >
<br>> > I have a bit of a challenge with an Adaptec 3940UW SCSI card.
To start off,
<br>> > here's the specs:
<br>> >
<br>> > Tyan Trinity 1590 Motherboard v1.16
<br>> > AMD K6 233MHz CPU
<br>> > 128M SDRAM
<br>> > Windows 98 loaded on a Western Digital 4G EIDE
drive (4 part VFAT)
<br>> > Redhat 6 loaded on Seagate Cheetah (3 part VFAT,
4 part ext2, 1 part swap)
<br>> > See below for more info
<br>> >
<br>> > The Problem:
<br>> >
<br>> > I was happily computing along, backing up my
laptop to the /home partition
<br>> > on the above machine (hostname = fuzzy) using
rdist when fuzzy restarted.
<br>> > This happened three times before I decided to
do something else and work
<br>> > on why later. The next day (I don't remember
what i was doing), fuzzy
<br>> > was rebooting into linux and needed to fsck the
/ partition (sda5). As
<br>> > it was trying to fsck, it crashed/rebooted with
no errors. Every reboot
<br>> > has the same result. The only major change
to the system was a
<br>> > motherboard BIOS update.
<br>> >
<br>> >
<br>> > Things I tried:
<br>> >
<br>> > o Booting from Slackware 3.5 SCSI boot/rescue
root floppies and running
<br>> > fsck on sda5.
<br>> >
<br>> > o Booting from Slackware 4.0 aic7xxx boot/rescue
root floppies and running
<br>> > fsck on sda5.
<br>> >
<br>> > o When booting/rooting from floppy, I can mount
sda5 but if I poke
<br>> > around too much (cd's & ls's),
it eventually crashes/reboots.
<br>> >
<br>> > o I can fsck the other ext2 sda* partitions,
but poking around too much
<br>> > eventually crashes/reboots (tar'ing
each partition causes a crash).
<br>> >
<br>> > o Tar'ing a CD from either CD-ROM drive doesn't
cause a crash.
<br>> >
<br>> > o Setting Bus A termination to Disabled and Bus
B termination to Enabled.
<br>> >
<br>> > o I booted with aic7xxx=panic_on_abort,verbose
and it still rebooted.
<br>> >
<br>> > o I downgraded the motherboard BIOS to the original
version and it still
<br>> > crashes.
<br>> >
<br>> > o Windows 98 (scarily enough) works fine.
I did a thorough scandisk on
<br>> > all EIDE & SCSI partitions with
no problem. Both CD-ROM's work fine.
<br>> >
<br>> > o The cheetah was repartitioned and installed
with Redhat 6 a few weeks ago
<br>> > and except when I had to turn off
wide negotiation on the CD-ROM and Zip
<br>> > drives, has been working fine.
<br>> >
<br>> > At this point, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Possibilities
include
<br>> > hardware failure on either the SCSI Card or Seagate Cheetah or
a SCSI BIOS
<br>> > mis-configuration, but then why does Windows 98 work? (No
really, why
<br>> > does Windows 98 work? :-) )
<br>> >
<br>> > Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated!
<br>> >
<br>> > Please contact me if there are any further questions via internet
mail at
<br>> > jsv@sirveiss.com. Thank you very much!
<br>> >
<br>> > Jeffrey Veiss (jsv@NOSPAMsirveiss.com)
13 Lynn Court
<br>> > Network Engineer/System Administrator
Somerville, NJ 08876
<br>> > Sir Veiss, Inc.
(908) 431-1318
<br>> >
<br>> > ----------------------------------------
<br>> > Here's some other useful info:
<br>> >
<br>> > Significant IRQ's:
<br>> >
<br>> > 3 COM2
<br>> > 4 COM1
<br>> > 5 IDE Creative Labs AWE32
<br>> > 7 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25
<br>> > 10 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25
<br>> > 11 PCI 3Com Fast Ethernet
<br>> > 14 Enhanced IDE Bus
<br>> > 15 USB
<br>> > NA PCI Creative Labs Voodoo 2
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