[3440] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Adaptech AHA-2940 SCSI problem (again)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bell)
Tue Mar 3 20:17:22 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 16:37:34 -0700
From: Andrew Bell <abell@codenet.net>
Reply-To: andrew.bell@bigfoot.com
To: sbhatia@idt.com
Cc: redhat-install-list@redhat.com, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Sanjay Bhatia wrote:
>
> hi,
> this is the second time i am sending this to the list with more
> information about what's happening with my machine. I am hoping that
> someone else has a similar setup and can give me some pointers about how
> to solve this issue.
>
> i have a machine with an Adaptech AHA-2940 SCSI controller. When i
> boot the machine with a redhat (5.0 and 4.0) install disk, the
> controller is detected correctly, and so is the CDROM and HD attached to
> it. then, for some reason the kernel goes into an infinite loop trying
> to detect other devices on the bus. it resets the bus because of
> timeouts.
There is a lot of info out on the net about the AHA-2940 and its
problems with Linux. I couldn't get the thing to work for anything
with the standard slackware SCSI driver. I didn't have any
trouble with RH 5.0. It seems that the problem is usually the
SCSI bios that comes with the controller.
Check out: http://www.lks.se/~mikn/linux/aha/
Download the disks and see if they can at least get you running.
You might also want to look at:
http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/2940.html
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