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[Mark Hounschell]

Mark Hounschell wrote:
> 
>   Bob_Tracy wrote:
>   >
>   > Mark Hounschell wrote:
>   > > I'm using a 2930U. Latest aic7xxx driver. I've not had to much
>  rouble
>   > > with it. I have a Micro-Star Athlon MB. SuSe 6.4. 4 scsi
> disk,tape,
>   > > and cdrw. I didn't ever see any of your symtoms posted. Probaby
> was
>   > > in a deleteing mode that day. What happens, and when? I don't
>  know     >> what
>   > > the U2 model is. Mines just a 2930U.
>   >
>   > The U2 has an internal/external SE/Ultra bus (50 pin), and an
>   > internal Ultra-2 bus (68 pin).  There's a second AIC on the card
>   > that provides electrical isolation and switching between the two
>   > busses (single channel card), and as long as you have only Ultra-2
>   > peripherals on the Ultra-2 side of the card, they will run at up to
>   > 80 MB/s.
>   >
>   > As for symptoms of what I'm seeing, the machine will boot both Linux
>   > and Win95 off the 2930U2 drive zero, but Linux goes into the
> infinite
>   > timeout/reset loop after the sequencer code is downloaded to the
>  card.
>   > (Note that the aic7xxx driver correctly identifies the card, but
>  that's
>   > as far as it goes).  I tried booting FreeBSD 4.1 off the two-floppy
>   > bootstrap set, and got the same behavior.  Today, I plucked the card
>   > and put it into a different machine, and all is well...  Hence, my
>   > conclusion that it has something to do with my particular
> motherboard
>   > and/or its setup.
>   >
>   > Another respondent suggested checking the PnP OS setting in the
>   > motherboard setup.  That might be the catch of the day, because I
>   > distinctly remember that it's set to "yes" (inappropriately so, I
>   > gather).
> 
>   That's what I hear too but It's never made in difference in anything
>   in my experience.
> 
>   >
>   > --
>   > Bob Tracy
>   > rct at wlk.com
> 
>   You noticed I said that I hadn't had TOO much trouble. I actually have
>   2 of the 2930u cards. Home and at work. At home all I have connected
>   is a 4gb barracuda, exabyte 8500 tape drive and a Yamaha CRW8424 cdrw.
>   At work a have the same but 3 additional 4gb barracuda's. The exabyte
>   tape and Yamaha CDRW have been added recently. That's when my problem
>   started. Almost every time I reboot the machine right after the
>   sequencer
>   code is loaded I get messages about a reset because of a time-out from
>   a test-unit-ready. It usually points to scsi device id=0. Sometimes it
>   says somthing about trying harder and sometimes it'll succeed in what
>   ever
>   it's trying to do. But more often than not it will appear to be in an
>   endless loop and I have to power down and power back up. That USUALLY
>   will let it boot on up.
> 
>    At home after recently adding the same Yamaha CDRW I find the same
>   thing
>   happening to me just not as frequent.
> 
>    At work if I remove the exabyte tape and Yamaha I never have this
>   problem. Once I'm able to get the machine up all works great.
> 
>    What kind of devices do you have connected? Do ya have a SCSI CD/RW?
> 
>   I've been meaning to gather up all the info relating to my problem
>   and post it to the list but haven't as yet. Your the first to hear
>   about it. There is no doubt in my mind that my problem is a  driver
>   problem. Monday, from work I'll right down all the messages I get
>   and post my problem to the list.
> 
> By the way, When I try to mail to you directly my mail gets returned
> as spam???????????
> 
>   regards
> 
>   --
>   Mark Hounschell
>   dmarkh at cfl.rr.com
> 
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Mark Hounschell
dmarkh at cfl.rr.com


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