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Re: Reboot hang with AHA 2940 Ultra
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry M. Augustin)
Sun Jun 8 22:16:37 1997
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 15:50:30 -0700
From: "Larry M. Augustin" <lma@varesearch.com>
To: alex@ultranet.com.br, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, mike@ultranet.com.br
>I have a fairly strange problem with my Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra Wide,
>Linux
>version 2.0.28, and a Quantum Fireball.
>...
>As this machine will be used as a mission critical server and needs to
>reset using a watchdog this will cause serious problems for me.
Have you tried a different disk drive? The Quantum Fireball ranks in
our book as one of the least reliable disk drives of all time. It's
up there with the Maxtor MXT-540S, the famous 1GB Connor drive with
the SCSI firmware bugs, and the Micropolis 4GB AV drives (whose part
number escapes me at the moment).
We consistely saw SCSI bus errors, data curruption, and other
reliability problems with the Fireballs. Ever wonder why the Fireball
is so cheap? My feeling is that this drive had SCSI firmware bugs.
Larry
Larry Augustin Tl: +1.415.934.3666
VA Research, Inc. Fax: +1.415.964.7668
1235 Pear Ave., Suite 109 Email: lma@varesearch.com
Mountain View, CA 94043 Web: http://www.varesearch.com
