Quantum Viking + 2940UW = crash

Lawrence ychim at ForeverMail.com
Sun Jul 19 01:51:26 PDT 1998


where to get 5.1 pre 4?

Lawrence

christian.klein wrote:
> 
> 5.1 pre 4 seems to have solved my problems (at the bottom so you know
> what i'm talking about). Up 22 hours and counting. no problem with huge
> file copies anymore.  thanks all!
> 
> christian klein
> klein002 at bama.ua.edu
> 
> On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, christian.klein wrote:
> 
> > i have a 2940UW with a Quantum Viking 4.5 NSE Rev: 880R, a
> > Seagate ST32550N, and a Plextor PX-32CS all connected to the narrow
> > channel.  I upgraded to the a 440FX motherboard, a Pentium II 266, and the
> > 5.1 aicxxx driver at the same time.  (First, I got a parity error before
> > the 5.1 upgrade if that means anything.)
> >
> > However, now i have to disable
> > 'enable disconnect' for the quantum in the scsi bios or it will hang the
> > scsi bus during large file copies (20+ megabytes).  I did not have to do
> > this before with 5.0x drivers, but now, after booting off kernels with the
> > 5.0x drivers compiled in, the same thing happens. So, it's not the driver
> > or is it?  could my new motherboard/cpu be at fault or is my Quantum
> > disk drive buggy?  is it dying?  or do other people have to do this with
> > 2940UWs and quantum disks?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> > christian klein
> > klein002 at bama.ua.edu
> >
> >
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