Re: Problems with Adaptec SCSI-cards

acd_at_homeunix.net
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:05:57 +0000 (UTC)

On 2004-11-16, Peter T. Breuer <ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
> 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)?

Kernel is 2.6.9, the driver is aic7xxx. If I try it with the old driver
(aic7xxx_old) the machine wont even boot.

CPU is 800Mhz Duron, the motherboard is an Abit KV7.

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

Haven't touched those BIOS settings. I'll try that next.

>
> What options did you give the driver?

None.

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

Yes, it's very old. And I'm starting to hate them aswell.

> Peter

The funniest thing is, that I put the same card into an old p2 300mhz
fujitsu server, and everything worked perfectly. It seems to have something
to do with newer hardware. I've tried other newer MB's, the result seems to
be the same. If the machine is fast enough, the card chokes.

Could somebody recommed a _good_ SCSI card that would work flawlessly
in linux 2.6+ ?

Thanks, 

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