aic 3940 problem

[Nick Taylor]

Thanks for the info & James suggestion re: termination.

I think it's the second drive on a 3940 that causes my problem, 1 is OK.

I have currently reverted to a 2940 which works fine, however I would like
my second channel back if the problem can be resolved.

Nick
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Ivan Kohler wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 09:04:44AM +0100, Nick Taylor wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > So is anyone out there using 3940s with recent linux and aic drivers?
>
> Yes.
>
> I have three servers with 3940's, each with one drive connected to each
> SCSI controller.
>
> One machine is running kernel 2.2.7, no problems so far.
>
> One machine is running kernel 2.2.10, no problem upgrading to it.
>
> The third machine, upon upgrading to 2.2.10 (in fact, the same exact
> kernel image), goes into one of those infinite SCSI reset loops on boot
> (though it eventually hangs with some sort of kernel fault).  It's
> identical hardware to the machine that I upgraded with no problems. I
> checked the BIOS and Adaptec BIOS settings, they're identical as well.
> Fscking *weird*.
>
> Specifically, does anyone know what information from the infinite reset
> loops should be provided to help troubleshoot these sorts of problems?
>
> > Here I have now
> > reverted to a 2940 with no problems, the 3940 hangs the system as soon
> > as a second drive
> > becomes active even when only using a single channel.
> >
> >
> > This is since upgrading to SuSE 6.0 kernel 2.0.36, aic 5.1.5 and seems
> > to happen on all
> > subsequent versions that I downloaded.
> >
> >
> > Is anyone having the same problem??
> >
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > --
> >
> > Nick Taylor    mailto://nt@dataskill.co.uk   Dataskill, London, England
> >
> > mailto://webmaster@reflexology.org
> >
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> --
> Ivan Kohler <ivan at iqualify.com>

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