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From: dth@cistron.nl (Danny ter Haar)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2940/Opti/Quantum Grand Prix 7200RPM
Date: 9 Sep 1995 10:21:54 +0200
Organization: Cistron Internet Services - the Netherlands
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote:
>Larry Snyder (larry@rn.com) wrote:
>: My Quantum drive won't run reliable at 10mhz with sync transfers
>: enabled
>:
>: here is the boot info:
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: ahc0 <Adaptec 294X SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:18
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: ahc0: reading board settings
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: ahc0: 294x Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, aic7870, 16 SCBs
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: ahc0: Downloading Sequencer Program...Done
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: ahc0: Probing channel A
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: (ahc0:0:0): "QUANTUM XP32150 581H" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 2050MB (4199760 512 byte sectors)
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: pci0:19: vendor=0x1095, device=0x640, class=storage [not supported]
>: Sep 8 10:40:50 trauma /kernel: pci0: uses 8392704 bytes of memory from f8000000 upto f87fffff.
>:
>:
>: the machine is a 100 mhz Opti Pentium with a 2940. From time to time with
>: the 10mhz rate enabled with sync operation - the SCSI buss will lock up solid.
>
>You sure seem to be having an inordinate amount of problems with your
>box. Are you certain that the mboard or scsi controller is working
>correctly?
>
I had the same problem with our news host running linux.
The machine is a 486DX4/100 and would randomly lockup with the
scsi led solid on. Than i switched back to 8 mb/s and everything
has worked fine since ..
aic7xxx_detect: AIC-7870 Rev B
aic7xxx_detect: devconfig 0x0, devstatus 0x5
aic78xx: Reading SEEPROM... done
aic7870: extended translation enabled
AIC7870 (PCI-bus):
irq 11
bus release time 40 bclks
data fifo threshold 100%
SCSI CHANNEL A:
scsi id 7
scsi selection timeout 256 ms
scsi bus reset at power-on enabled
scsi bus parity enabled
scsi bus termination (low byte) enabled
aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code..done.
Resetting the SCSI bus...
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 2.0/2.0/2.0
scsi : 1 host.
aic7xxx: Scanning channel A for devices.
aic7xxx: target 0 now synchronous at 8.0Mb/s, offset = 0xf
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: PD1800S Rev: 3161
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
aic7xxx: target 1 now synchronous at 8.0Mb/s, offset = 0xf
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: XP34301 Rev: 1030
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
SCSI Hardware sector size is 512 bytes on device sda
SCSI Hardware sector size is 512 bytes on device sdb
Danny
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