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Re: Bios settings for AHA-2940UW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Omachonu Ogali)
Thu Feb 18 03:22:58 1999
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 03:19:43 -0500
From: Omachonu Ogali <omachonu.ogali@softhome.net>
To: m.davis2@physics.ox.ac.uk
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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Matthew Davis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a PII-300 system running Redhat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36 with an
> AHA-2940UW and a Fujitsu M2949E-512 HDD.
>
> I have never been able to get more than 1.5 Mb/s data transfer from the
> HDD, as measured by
>
> hdparm -t /dev/sda
>
> When I last tried it in Windows it did little better, but this was after
> I had been playing around with the BIOS.
>
> This suggest to me a hardware problem : but none of the computer support
> staff here seem to know anything about SCSI. However, I have checked the
> SCSI cable, and it seems fine - the HDD is the last device on the cable,
> and it has an active terminator on the end.
>
> I was hoping someone might be able to copy down there Adaptec BIOS
> settings and send them to me : I really don't understand exactly what I am
> doing with most of it, just to confirm that it isn't a setting that is
> wrong.
>
> TIA,
>
> Matthew Davis.
>
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My advice to you, would be assess your system for
any current conflicts. I have an AHA-2940UA that uses
IRQ 10 for default, and my Ethernet card started dropping
packets. Maybe the IRQ is also being used by another
device, causing the SCSI bus to slow down?
Sincerely,
Omachonu Ogali...omachonu.ogali@softhome.net
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