[609] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Adaptec 2940
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mafra@ibm.net)
Sat Sep 9 21:48:51 1995
From: mafra@ibm.net
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 95 10:09:26 +0100
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi,
> I've tried the patches and bootdisc from Calgary and both give horrific
> timeout errors. It's stated that the code is Beta - is there a more up-
> to-date version to be had (all the Calgary stuff is dated around Nov/Dec
> last).
reading about your problems reminds me to my installation of Linux!
I first tried to install 1.2.9 onto my machine with an Adaptec 2940. I got three
Alphaversions of the Adaptec 2940 Kernel. In my situation version 1 hangs the machine,
version 2 seems to work when there is no heavy harddisk usage and version 3 hangs the
machine too.
I installed Linux with the second alphakernel and installed all the sources too. After this
I downloaded the patchsources to get the kernel to version 1.3.21. Trying to compile a new
kernel on my machine always hangs it. The Adaptec 2940 started working on the harddisc and
after a while every activity stopped but the light on the controller stays on. After this
only a hard reset works to get the machine work again.
A friend of mine compiled the kernelversion 1.3.18 and we installed everything on my
machine. After this linux works quite good.
Michael
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