[585] in linux-scsi channel archive
Sound PCI SCSI solution?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Junius)
Sun Sep 3 09:19:10 1995
To: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
From: mj@morannon.fido.de (Martin Junius)
Date: 3 Sep 1995 10:42:43 +0200
Hi everybody!
I'm looking for a really working PCI SCSI solution for my 486DX2, ASUS
SP3G mail+news server.
- Currently I'm using the onboard NCR controller with a Quantum Empire
2100S (2GB) and an old Fujitsu M2263S (600MB) disk. After about two
month of operating flawlessly I ran into the infamous "resetting for
second half of retries" hangups. Getting a new Quantum 2100S solved
this for another month, but now it happens again.
Upgrading to rel11 of the NCR driver improved things somewhat, but not
entirely. I sort of "fixed" this by removing the reset during the SCSI
retries: no hangups anymore, but errors from the SCSI disk.
- Then I thought that maybe getting an Adaptec 2940 controller might
solve my problems. But browsing thru comp.os.linux.* I read that the
new driver in the 1.3.x kernel is not entirely stable and that there
are subtle problems with Quantum drives in general, the 2100S in
particular. :-(
So I'm sort of stuck. Is there any PCI SCSI controller with a totally
stable and working LINUX driver? How stable is the new 1.3.x 2940
driver? Or is there a general problem with Quantum drives?
Help! ;-)
Martin
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