Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 00:00:19 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Ian J Greely" <ian@tirnanog.org> Cc: trouble@netquick.net, "Brian Somers" <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: AH 2940UW timeout problems... Message-ID: <199910152300.AAA02774@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Ian J Greely" <ian@tirnanog.org> of "Fri, 15 Oct 1999 23:19:20 BST." <001701bf175b$5ffde200$8e7b38d4@ciara>
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> >Ummm i just recently upgraded to 3.3 and im now having the same problem
> >at boot...
> >it sees the card fine, but when it goes to stat the disk it does nothing
> >but send the exact same error, i thought the drive had finally died, so
> >i went got a new drive and the exact same thing, could my card have gone
> >bonjkers, maybe ill try to just replace the cable and see if that helps
> >
>
> Sounds like a waste of time. The mailing list has this error as far back as
> three years ago and it appears that everyone who has faced it has been told
> to replace the card. SOmething about "dodgy motherboard bios". It works fine
> for me under all of the versions of 95 and 98. It doesn't work properly with
> the original NT 4 but the updated version is fine. Works just fine under
> OS/2 and Linux. *shrug* Seems unlikely to be a cable or "dodgy termination"
> problem.
Believe me, there are thousands of people reading this list with SCSI
subsystems that work. Your argument is the same as the ``I keep
getting SIGBUS or SIGSEGV when I compile'' argument. People have
been complaining about it for years.... this doesn't mean it's a
software problem.
Really, the best way to deal with this sort of thing is to spend lots
of time swapping parts in and out of machines. Of course it helps if
you have more than one machine.... not a luxury that everyone has.
I have an external SCSI box that you can borrow for a while, along
with a known good cable and a terminator block. It'd be worth moving
your disk into that and seeing if the problem goes away. If it does,
it's either a cabling problem or a problem with the internal bus. If
it doesn't, I'm willing to swap a 1542B for your card :-]
Give me a shout when I'm back from FreeBSDCon....
> regards,
> Ian
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