Prblem with AIC7890

[Robert Sander]

On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Doug Ledford wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Claus Beerta wrote:
> 
> > Hi, i have a Adaptec 7890AB Chipset on my Asus P2B-S Mainboard, and
> > i have several problems with intense disk access.
> > After a while of Disk access the complete System halts, my HD Led is
> > turning steady red, and syslog shows messages like:
> > SCSI Host 0 abort .... resetting
> > blah blah ... SCSI bus is being reset.
> > after this reset it works fine again. Until the next disk attack.
> > Is this due to alpha stage of the drivers, or my Termination (i can't
> > imagine, winblows runs fine and no file errors at all)
> 
> > Setup: 1 Quantum Fireball SE 3.1 GB
> >               2  HP C3323-3 1 GB HD
> >               1 Plextor 12/20 SCSI Drive
> >         All normal 50 Pin SCSI II Drives, no UW SCSI at all.
> 
> Your problem is to be considered normal with all of these drives sharing
> the same SCSI bus (mainly due to brain damage in the drive firmware, these
> drives get very pissy when the SCSI bus is actually busy).  I used to use
> this exact combination of drives (Fireball + HP C3323A) to force resets on
> a regular basis.

I have an IBM DCAS-34330W  hanging at the onboard Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra
SCSI controller of the Gigabyte GA-686DLX. With Linux 2.1.126 SMP I get
the same timeouts, but they don't clear themselves, I have to reboot very
hardly.

Greetings

Robert Sander	"Is it Friday yet?"
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