On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:36:42PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:15:36PM -0600, John Gonzalez/netMDC admin > wrote: > > > > What kind of problems have you run into with the Adaptec card? I'm > > using that card and software RAID, and i've run into hard lock > > problems. I attributed it to the RAID code, but it could be the > > card. > In slink, the installation would hang up after failing to properly > puzzle out which driver to load into the kernel. The workaround was to > grab the boot floppy image that was tailored to it. > > In the first frozen potato I was seeing scads of I/O timeouts on disk > access. Again, though, I haven't tried it since the first frozen > version. It may be okay now, or okay using the 'idepci' images.
I had a machine with a 2940 lock up after a fair few SCSI bus resets. I compiled up the latest 2.2.17 pre release which has the latest driver in it and turned off tagged command queuing and haven't seen a problem since. J. -- \ Black Cat Networks Ltd. / Whatever kind of look you were \ / http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ \ going for, you missed. / \ .uk domains 10ukp+vat/2 years / \ / .com/.net/.org 10ukp+vat/year \ /
