Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:28:36 -0500 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>, "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: SCSI card recommendations Message-ID: <006401c16e0b$b898c5c0$6600000a@ach.domain> In-Reply-To: <006b01c16dbf$ac6ab520$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:anthony@atkielski.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:24 AM > To: Andrew C. Hornback; Charles Burns; FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: SCSI card recommendations > > Andrew writes: > > > Anthony, it wasn't connected to a Seagate drive > > by any chance, was it? > > The 29160N wasn't connected to anything when I installed it. It generated > errors before I had a chance to try to connect it to anything. I > was wary when > I saw that I had only a 32-bit PCI slot for the 64-bit card (although the > documentation says that this is supposed to work). I think that > the card is > just too fast or something, however. When I saw that it wasn't > on the supported > hardware list, I decided to do the easy thing and install a less > fancy SCSI card > (since I only wanted it for external peripherals, not disks). Could be that your motherboard didn't live up to the PCI spec that the card was designed for. Moot point now. > The machine has only one disk, and it's IDE, unfortunately. > > > I somehow find that hard to believe, unless you > > tried to put this card in maybe a 486 or a > > Socket 5 Pentium... > > Spurious interrupts and parity errors are typical symptoms of speed > discrepancies. I rather doubted that a brand-new Adaptec card in > a brand-new PC > would have any hardware failures. Anything produced by human hands on a production line is prone to any number of failure modes. Nothing is perfect. > > It's not on the hardware list (I actually had to > > confirm that, since I didn't believe it), but this > > card has been running under FreeBSD since > > version 4.2, possibly earlier. > > It may work on faster configurations, or different motherboards, > or something. > I couldn't get it to work, and my questions to the lists went > unanswered, as I > recall, so I gave up. I should not have bought such a fancy card > in the first > place--it cost almost as much as the PC. I never saw an questions regarding that card. > > I'll agree with that. That's why I have a spare > > 40 MB/s chain for external devices on my workstation. > > Unfortunately, my inexpensive PC had no SCSI capability included, > so I had to > buy a card. In fact, it had no network card, either, so I had to > buy that as > well (3Com). It did come with a modem card, which was useless to me, so I > pulled that and put the NIC in its place (both PCI). So now I've added a > brand-new 29160 and a brand-new internal PCI modem card to my > ever-growing stash > of unused hardware. You'll find a use for it somewhere. I always tend to find ways to use hardware that's worth keeping... as an example, my $130 US router, complete with 3 NICs, modem, 3 channel Adaptec SCSI controller and a hot swap cage. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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