Problems with an AHA-2940 UW (PCI)

[Mark R. Lindsey]

I've had immense trouble with the 2940UW with 2.0.34 and 2.0.35 -- and
so have lots of other people. There's an unstable AIC-7xxx driver in the
`stable' Linux kernels. 

If you use 2.0.33, patch it against network attacks.



: Slackware 3.5????  What device(s) do you have hung from your card?  did
: you diable the Wide negotiation?  That is what I had to do with the
: orignial driver (not written by doug) and haven't changed it (yes, I'm a
: coward).  You might want to try doing that.  I used to get that message
: when I used an inexpensive 58pin ribbon cable for my wide HDs.  Could be
: a bad cable???
: 
: 
: wuff,
: andy
: 
: On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Anthony Spataro wrote:
: 
: > I recently bought an Adaptec 2940 UltraWide adapter and I get the following
: > messages when I try to boot using a Slackware 3.5, Red Hat or Debian boot
: > disk (all using the 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 kernel):
: > 
: > >scsi: 1 hosts
: > >(scsi 0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices
: > >SCSI: aborting command du to timeout: pid 1, scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
: > >lun0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00
: > >SCSI host 0 abort (pid 1) time out - trying harder
: > >SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
: > 
: > This problem appears to be very similar or identical to the problem
: > reported by Ulrich Hansmair <ulrich at hansmair.m.uunet.de> in an earlier
: > message to the list, with the exception that earlier in the boot sequence,
: > I see output saying something along the lines of "Downloading sequencer
: > code...406 instructions downloaded" followed by "Failed initialization of
: > WD-7000 card!" I don't know if Ulrich had a similar message.
: > 
: > He suggested I disable SCSI BIOS in the SCSI adapter's setup and try to
: > boot. I did so and the same error occured. I know very little about SCSI
: > and I have only one hard drive, so there's no way for me to install Linux
: > to compile a new kernel or a new version of the aic7xxx driver...in short,
: > I'm in a jam. I know I'm coming to you without a clue, but I've been
: > working on this problem for three weeks without progress, so I decided to
: > break down and ask about it. Thanks in advance for any help.
: > 
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