Archives corrupt? and 2490UW/Quantum Viking problems

[Adam Jacobs]

Hi all,
sorry to break in on the development list, to which I'm not even
subscribed -- in fact I'm not even sure if this is the right address --
someone please set me straight? I found the archives on confused.ume.maine.edu
but that hostname is pretty descriptive of their state: all the messages
of the past year are missing; in their place are the texts of three-year-old
messages!  It's incredibly frustrating because from the message titles I can
see that some recent messages may address my problem but I can't read them.

I have a Quantum Viking ultra-wide 4.5G disk sitting on an Adaptec 2940UW
and it's pretty unusable -- whenever I try to, for example, mke2fs or
copy files onto the drive (apparently always during a write operation) I get
a string of messages like

Nov 29 11:05:18 kiscica kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 484
8, scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (6) 02 41 4b 8c 00
		(a bunch of these, followed by a bunch of:)
Nov 29 11:05:20 kiscica kernel: SCSI host 2 abort (pid 4848) timed out - resetti
ng
Nov 29 11:05:20 kiscica kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 2 channel 0.

This is on 2.0.32.  I found a reference to dledford at dialnet.net's patch
(ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx) and installed the patch against 2.0.32
dated Nov. 5 but it makes no difference at all.

Would one person be so kind as to reply to me personally by mail 
(ajk at garnet.berkeley.edu) as I'm not sure I've succeeded in subscribing
to the list (it seems to be closed?)

Adam