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To: Neil Bradley <root@synthcom.com>
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Subject: Re: Trouble with 2940/7870 SCSI 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jan 1996 02:42:17."
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Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 08:57:06 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>I've just installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 off the CDROM on my Pentium 100 machine, and
>intermittently I get timeouts on the on-board SCSI adapter (based on the
>Adaptec 7870). It issues a reset to the controller, the drive light goes off
>and it never comes back.

Upgrade to 2.1-STABLE.  There was just a very large aic7xxx driver update
that largely cures this problem.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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