[718] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Conner Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailingl)
Tue Oct 24 22:52:02 1995
From: linux@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen reading Linux mailinglist)
To: alan.buckwalter@eq.gs.com (Alan Buckwalter - x5586)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 09:21:05 +0100 (MET)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510231746.NAA14805@nyqsdc22.eq.gs.com> from "Alan Buckwalter - x5586" at Oct 23, 95 01:46:19 pm
Reply-To: linux-vger@wab-tis.rabobank.nl
According to Alan Buckwalter - x5586:
> I am running 1.2.13 linux on a 486 dx2/66 computer.
> I am trying to connect up a CONNER CP-30540 SCSI drive
> using an Adaptec 1542B to the machine, but am experiencing
> some strange behavior.
>
> After a cold poweron.
>
> Under DOS (yuck), when i boot the system, the drive spins
> up, and is accessible. I can reboot, and all continues to
> work just fine.
>
> Under Linux, when i boot the system, Linux makes special
> mention that it is spinning up the drive, and after a few
> seconds, does so, and the drive is accessible. However,
> if i do a warm reboot, the drive is no longer recognized.
>
> There is a drive jumper setting for spinning up, when I have
> checked, and even exchanged the drive for. Is there something
> else i can try. I'l sure like to use the disk.
There was a bug in the spinup code that was fixed in the 1.3 series.
I don't know if the fix ever made it into 1.2
Try 1.3.35, probably it will work OK.
Rob
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