[303] in linux-scsi channel archive
Bug in old Ultrastor bios & f/w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan S. Percy)
Tue Jun 27 20:54:31 1995
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 19:10:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Dan S. Percy" <dpercy@post.its.mcw.edu>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
cc: dparsons@synapse.kent.edu
In-Reply-To: <199506272327.SAA27433@post.its.mcw.edu>
Don Parsons wrote:
> [...]
> Since nobody in the past 3 years reported [Ultrastor] 14F ROM upgrades
> helping SCSI bus hangs or SCSI timeouts, I'm reporting it!
> [...]
I had tried installing Linux on my computer which has an Ultrastor 24F
controller. Even though others with this card had no problem, I was never
able to get my system going due to frequent scsi timeout errors which
hanged the system.
Thanks to the above report, I finally have a stable Linux system after
I upgraded my BIOS and firmware chips from revisions 3 and 4 to 5 and 8
respectively. So its seems that the problem Don reported for the
Ultrastor 14F with old BIOS & f/w also applies to the Ultrastor 24F. I
think this is useful information that should be included in the SCSI-Howto.
The chips can be ordered from Ultrastor. The code is also available
by ftp... finger ustor@primenet.com for the phone number and ftp site
info.
Dan
