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Re: fujitsu drives and aic7xxx

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zlatko Calusic)
Fri May 8 15:46:51 1998

To: David Hamm <dhamm@itserve.com>
Cc: Linux Scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr
From: Zlatko Calusic <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>
Date: 	08 May 1998 21:42:22 +0200
In-Reply-To: David Hamm's message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 12:19:16 -0400 (EDT)"

David Hamm <dhamm@itserve.com> writes:

> Having problems with aic7xxx controler and fujitsu drives.  I seem to get
> parity errors.  I've put the drives on an NT box with a symbios card and have
> no problems.  I also have another server using the aic7xxx chip with a fujitsu
> drive and it works find.  The only difference I can see is the model number of
> the drives.  The one that works is M2954Q and the other is a M2954E.  I've had
> a problem before with the M2954E as the system drive on the same computer so I
> had the mother boards swaped and ultimatly had  go to a quantum drive to get
> the system up.  The error I got when I tried to install redhat on this drive
> is below.  And yes I have used two different M2954Es.
> 
> Kernel Panic: aic7xxx: Waiting list inconsistancy; scb index=255 numscbs=0 
>  
> 

FWIW, M2954ESP works flawlessly on my setup:

Adaptec 2940UW (aic7xxx)
Linux v2.1.100
P166MMX, 64MB RAM

Regards,
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Posted by Zlatko Calusic           E-mail: <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>
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