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Re: Adaptec 2940 booting problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marnik Joosten)
Thu Jun 25 03:47:31 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 09:27:18 +0200
To: necaise@home.com
From: Marnik Joosten <mjoosten@connect.be>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
>This may be a trivial suggestion, but....
>
>Try reseating the scsi card. I received a computer new from the factory
>once, which flaked out in a kind of similar fashion; and, I reseated the
>card and all of the problems went away.
I removed all the cards now and put the adaptec next to the vga card. It
did not help.
>
>BTW, make sure you're not using a 2940u2w, based on the ahu7890 chip
>(the number is clearly visible on the chip). There have been several
>versions of the "Adaptec 2940" board which have used different chips.
>This particular chipset (789x) is not yet supported and can be a source
>trouble (usually though, it doesn't work in the install.)
The chip reads 7870. (Maybe its too old, the bios I mean but its a normal
eprom so I can't update it)
I'll stick to my old plan to insert a simple IDE cd-rom. And install linux
without scsi.
It would be nice if I could load that driver afterwards, if I only knew how.
I intend to replace the only NT-server at work (The others are AIX) with
Linux. :-) (At work the server doesn't use an Adaptec, so it's not that
urgent)
Thanks for the advise.
CU
Marnik
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