[805] in linux-scsi channel archive
The Adaptec 2825VL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Hill)
Sun Nov 12 04:00:27 1995
From: Erik Hill <ehill@empros.com>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 1995 23:28:01 -0600 (CST)
I'm no expert, and I'm not quite sure that this is the problem, but I am
fairly sure.
My system freezes on boot right after it (tries) to mount to file
system. Sometimes it gets as far as adding the swap-space, sometimes it
doesn't. Doesn't matter, as an experiment I took the swap entry in
fstab out, and it crashed anyway. I'm using the Adaptec 2825VL. The
driver on boot up that "recognizes" it is 152x, for some reason. I
think this is part of the problem. After trying to compile my own
kernel, I realize now that the 2825 is not supported by Linux. Off to
buy yet another card. Be aware of this. If you are using a similiar
card, it will probably freeze on you too, after working perfectly for a
week. This nasty little problem is invisible to e2fsck, so I doubt it's
a matter of simply corrupted data on the drive. After it freezes, it
won't boot again, ever. You have to literally format the partition,
even reinstalling Linux alone won't help. If anyone knows a way around
this terrible situation, then I need the help. I'm not sure I have the
money to buy another card. I'm running 1.3.18, the ASCSI boot disk, and
my attempts to compile the kernel 1.3.20 have failed, and the old kernel
that I've compiled, 1.2.3, compiles but does not recognize the card,
even if I put 152x in, even if I put ALL of the adaptec support on.
I'm near giving up on this horrible thing.
Erik
