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Re: Migration problems from Adaptec to Buslogic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Tue Apr 29 01:28:47 1997
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 22:26:27 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: mla@gams.co.at
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <199704282103.XAA00810@loki.gams.co.at> (message from Michael
Lausch on Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:03:19 +0200)
cc: lnz@dandelion.com
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 23:03:19 +0200
From: Michael Lausch <mla@gams.co.at>
We are planning to use Buslogic Flashpoint Adaptors. For testing
purposes i want to change the setup of my workstation from Adaptec to
Buslogic. I compiled a 2.1.35 kernel with Buslogic and flashpoint
support, installed the adaptor card in a PCI slot and strange things
happen:
Adaptec AIC7700 serves the SCSI disks and the Buslogic serves the
CDROM:
everything works fine.
Adaptec AIC7700 sits idle in a PCI slot with no SCSI devices
connected. Buslogic serves everything else:
The system boots, but fsck dumps core.
Booted from Floppy Rescue Set with the above configuration:
Everything works fine.
The Buslogic card is the only SCSI adaptor in the system:
After the LILO boot prompt, the string
"Loading linux 2.1.35" appears on the screen and the SCSI Bus remains
active (means the adapter led is active) and the system hangs.
The "extended translation" support of the Adaptec controller was never
active and the root partition is on a rather (3 years) old Seagate 500
MByte disk with SCSI ID 0.
Please try again with a recent 2.0 series kernel and see if the problems
remain. I wouldn't make any judgments about the quality of hardware from the
current state of 2.1.
Leonard
