Re: Adaptec Woes

[Ian Bunning <ijb22@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

Does anyone know if a similar problem affects the 2930U2 card?  I'm using
a custom built 2.2.13 kernel, running on Mandrake 6.1.  My Zip drive and
CD writer both fail under Linux, whether I use both together or either on
their own.  The Zip drive is an external SCSI 250Mb, the CD-RW is the
Yamaha 6416.  Any help would be much appreciated - I get virtually
identical errors to the ones Andrew described.  I can't easily post
example errors as my computer's not exactly happy at the moment..... (due
to an unrelated problem :-))

Ian

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Romain Kang wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Since you didn't specify the Linux flavor, the kernel version,
> the aic7xxx version, or the exact peripheral type, I'm guessing
> at this...
> 
> The timeout problem sounds like the early 1999 wide/narrow SCSI problem.
> Wide SCSI has no problem, but narrow SCSI gets timeouts.  I think it
> was aic7xxx 5.1.17 or whatever the version was in RedHat 6.0.  Doug
> Ledford fixed it right away, so RH 6.1 is fine, or you can download a
> current copy of the Linux kernel source (say, 2.2.13) or apply patches
> from Doug's aic7xxx web page:
> 	http://people.redhat.com/dledford/aic7xxx.html
> 
> Good hunting,
> Romain Kang             Siemens Info/Comm Products, San Jose R&D
> romain@icp.siemens.com  formerly Pyramid Technology Corporation
> 
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> 
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