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Old Adaptec in 2.0.35
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (McGee, Chris)
Sun Aug 30 18:38:13 1998
From: "McGee, Chris" <CMMcGee@Pella.com>
To: "'linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu'" <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 09:34:06 -0500
Hi folks-
I have an ancient creaky HP 486 that looks like a large bit of
furniture, but is actually my mp3/IRC/www/general bs server :)
The thing has (brace yourself) an EISA Adaptec 1740 (which is about
2 feet long, literally), with a couple old SCSI disks plugged into it. It's
running 2.0.35/glibc2.
It works fine for the most part, unless you attempt to move data
between the disks. Copying a meg of two of data is fine, but if you tell it
to move, for example, a directory full of mp3s, the machine dies every
single time. Pushing any large amount of data across the SCSI bus kills the
box in about 10-15 seconds. This does not occur pushing or pulling data
across the LAN (approximately 800k/sec transfer rate there).
This box ran SCO unix for almost a decade without ever having such a
problem. (SCO 3.2/386, hehe)
When it dies, the console scrolls kernel messages about trying to
reset the SCSI bus. You cannot get to a shell, and networking dies. The
only cure is to boot the machine (and wish for Magic SysReq in 2.0 :).
I guess if this is an EISA/really old hardware issue it's probably
not worth fixing, but if someone does want to look into it, let me know, and
I'll kill the poor box again and get you the exact error :)
Also, is there a place where the folks who are working on Adaptec
drivers post drivers that are not integrated with the kernel tree yet, or
are still in testing, or whatever?
Thanks! I've attached a snip from 'dmesg' to illustrate the
hardware config.
Cheers!
--Chris
Configuring aha174x at IO:6c80, IRQ 14
aha174x: Extended translation disabled.
scsi0 : Adaptec 174x (EISA)
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: HP Model: D1687-60001 Rev: 4717
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST32430N Rev: 0300
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2031705 [992 MB] [1.0 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4197405 [2049 MB] [2.0 GB]
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