Adaptec 7870 BIG PROBLEM = HELP

Sun Nov 7 15:09:31 PST 1999

I badly need your / any help because:

I have bought 20 ICL Fujitsu F530i team servers in
purpose to teach my students to run Linux OS as file
and webservers.... They all works fine with w95(tells
drive = dosmode) and NT4 but thats was not my
intention.
I just cant put in any Linux (RH 5.2/6.0 SUSE 5.3
Mandrake 6.0). 
During NFS install in terminal 3 I read

<4>(scsi0:0:0:0) Parity error during Message-In phase.

I have tried allmost everything and here is my
hardware

Motherboard            PBA63095B-203  (dual
pentiumboard with just one cpu= disabledin bios)
                                      ( IDE disabled
SCSI scan enabled)
BIOS                   AMI v1.00.15BIO  chip 6721-502
CPU                    Intel 100MHz
RAM                    163MB
Graph.adapt            Cirrus logic CL-GD5430-QC-C (on
                               motherboard) Irq=11
SCSI adapt             Adaptec AIC-7870P BIOS v1.15S  
                                         Irq=10  Id #7

Eth                    3Com509B combo        PnP    
                                I/O 210       Irq= 5 

Drives                 Seagate               ST31230WN
                            1GB                Id #0
                       Seagate               ST31230WN
                            1GB                Id #1
                       Fujitsu              
M2954E-512                             4GB            
   Id #2
CD-Rom                 Matshita              CR-503   
                                               Id #5
Tape                   HP C1533A                      
                                               Id #6

In hardware there is no conflicts between DMA or IRQ.
SCSI BIOS find all drives and Id:s during boot.

In this print out from syslog during install i had a
connor drive too.
Just to check if the response was different,but not.
If I put out first drive it looks for the second drive
ID #1 OK but else same.
All hardrives out it find the tape and CD
Disable parity in BIOS same result

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<4>Linux version 2.2.5-14BOOT
(root at porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1
Sun Apr 18 22:28:51 EDT 1999
<4>Detected 99721446 Hz processor.
<4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
<4>Calibrating delay loop... 39.73 BogoMIPS
<4>Memory: 159864k/163840k available (872k kernel
code, 408k reserved, 1828k data, 44k init)
<4>CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 05
<6>Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using
exception 16 error reporting.
<6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
<6>Checking for popad bug... OK.
<6>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
<4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
<4>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfcd31
<4>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
<6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
<6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society
NET3.039
<6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
<6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
<6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
<4>Starting kswapd v 1.5 
<6>Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
<6>Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options
enabled
<6>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<6>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
<4>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
<4>RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K
size
<4>hda: Conner Peripherals 850MB - CFS850A, ATA DISK
drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<6>hda: Conner Peripherals 850MB - CFS850A, 812MB
w/64kB Cache, CHS=825/32/63
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
<6>FDC 0 is an 82078.
<4>scsi : 0 hosts.
<4>scsi : detected total.
<4>Partition check:
<4> hda:
<5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
<4>EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck
is recommended
<4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
<6>install uses obsolete /proc/pci interface
<4>eth0: 3c509 at 0x210 tag 1, BNC port, address  00
60 97 1e e6 52, IRQ 5.
<4>3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98
becker at cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov.
<6>device lo entered promiscuous mode
<6>device lo left promiscuous mode
<6>(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7870 SCSI host adapter> found
at PCI 11/0
<6>(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
<6>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 406
instructions downloaded
<4>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
(EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.15/3.2.4
<4>       <Adaptec AIC-7870 SCSI host adapter>
<4>scsi : 1 host.
<4>(scsi0:0:0:0) Parity error during Message-In phase.
<4>scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0,
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00
00 00 
<4>scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0,
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00
00 00 
<4>SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
<4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
<4>SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out -
trying harder
<4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
<4>(scsi0:0:0:0) Parity error during Message-In phase.
<4>SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
<4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
<4>SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out -
trying harder

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Any input makes me happy

thanks

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