FIXED!!!
Andrew Hall
aah at impaq.net.au
Mon Jun 22 17:14:05 PDT 1998
Okay, to everyone who has been having grief with 7880 / 7895 chipsets and linux 2.1.105/2.0.34 with the persistent
scsi bus timeout...
trying harder...
reset bus...
scsi bus timeout... etc,
thanks to a suggestion from a guy who helped me with what I thought was a totally unrelated problem, I think I now know what is causing it. There is a setting in the bios on the new ATX motherboards to do with power management. I'm still not sure what it does, but here is this guy's suggestion and believe it or not it worked and I had no more problems with any of my devices:
Hi Andrew,
I had a similar problem with a Tyan Tiger motherboard, same kernel (RH51
distribution) and an 82558.(Intel eepro100b NIC)
Now, I'm assuming that your motherboard may be an ATX conforming to the
PC98 standards. If so, then there are two BIOS settings that may solve
your problem. The first is in power management and is called "ACPI Aware
OS", it should be set to "No". The second is in chipset setup and is
called "ACPI Control Register", it should be set to "Disabled" (I believe
it's enabled by default).
I don't know a whole lot about PC98 and ACPI, I just know that none of my
PCI cards would work until I disabled the ACPI control register.
Hope this helps,
Mark
It did.. it helped me no end... So thanks mark, and I hope it helps others who are having the same problems..
regards,
Andrew.
ps. Thanks Troy and others for your help too..
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