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Buslogic SCSI and floppy problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Mon Jun 19 20:18:53 1995
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 16:42:56 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: djm@mindcrime.indirect.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: Dan McGuirk's message of Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:17:58 -0700 (MST) <199506190617.XAA00930@mindcrime.indirect.com>
From: Dan McGuirk <djm@mindcrime.indirect.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:17:58 -0700 (MST)
Hi. I just got a Buslogic VESA SCSI controller and a 2gig Seagate
Barracuda drive. Ever since then, whenever I try to write to a
floppy, I instead get random data spewed all over my hard drive, and
the system locks up. I have to boot off a boot/root disk to repair
the filesystem.
I have tried using both the floppy controller on the Buslogic card and
a separate floppy controller. This is on kernel 1.2.8. I haven't
been able to try any other kernel versions, since I don't have lilo
setup on here, and obviously I can't write a kernel to a disk.
Any suggestions?
I've never heard of anyone else having such a problem. This sounds
suspiciously like the motherboard is not functioning correctly with respect to
DMA transfers. Are you sure that your motherboard supports bus-mastering VLB
devices, and that the BusLogic controller is in a bus-mastering slot?
Leonard
