Re: Problems with Adaptec SCSI-cards

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_lab.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:47:41 +0100

acd@homeunix.net wrote:
> The card shows up fine in Linux. The disk shows fine. I can even create
> partitions to the disk and it writes the boot record fine. When I try to
> create the filesystem: It starts to write the info to the disk, but
> depending on the size of the partition, it hangs within 3 seconds dumping
> the scsi-info and that abort-thingie. Same result on all 2940/2940
> cards and disks and cables.

What kernel? What driver? What CPU(s)?

What speed did you set the disks to in the scsi bios? Turn them to
10MBs.

What options did you give the driver?

Personally I hate adaptec 79xxx cards. 2940 is old isn't it? Is that
the old pci card, from before the 160MBs standards?

Peter

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