Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:41:27 +0300 From: "Victor Ponomarev" <vick@unet.ru> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable Message-ID: <199802191101.OAA02405@ns.unet.ru>
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> > >On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Benedict Stockebrand wrote: > >> "Victor Ponomarev" <vick@unet.ru> writes: >> >> > Hardware: [...] Adaptec 2940 Ultra (BIOS 1997), >> > >> > [snip] >> > >> > 2) I took a old AHA 2940 Ultra from my friend (BIOS 1996) . >> > Well! All is fine. But I'm not sure that trasfer rate was 20 Mbps on >> > SCSI bus. >> >> Could it be that the old one was a 2940 U but the new one a 2940 AU? >> IIRC the OpenBSD people had some nasty surprises with that --- the old >> 2940 U works, but the 2940 AU uses a "simplified" chipset and didn't >> work with their 2940 U-based drivers. >> > >I would concur with this. I have a number of 2940U boards that worked >fine, but I had to shelve an Adaptec 2940AU until the ahc driver was >updated (in 2.2.5 ?). The 2940AU works great now (2.2.5-RELEASE and >2.2.5-STABLE). > >Chuck > I have 2940U board with BIOS ver. 1.34. This card by default uses 10Mbps transfer rate. If I put transfer rate to 20Mbps except problem with istallation the other problem also appear. If I compile some huge ports or kernel the SCSI bus hungs up on timeout and system crushed. Sorry I don't write the died dump by pen. Are any suggetion? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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