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From: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW lockup problem
Date: 29 Apr 1996 17:30:10 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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Honorable Mike Andrews
      wrote on 25 Apr (in article <mandrews.830434944@bob.wittenberg.edu>):

=Note that the controller is wide, but all the current devices are narrow...
=
=The problem is that the machine siezes up tight during some SCSI activity.
=No kernel message/panic, nada, just frozen system, keyboard, only way out
=is the Reset button.  Out of the box, I couldn't even complete a newfs on
=a disk without it crashing.  I went into the SCSI BIOS and disabled the
=>1GB translation, and things improved greatly, but not completely.  Now it

Is machine's BIOS aware of disks at all? It should not be (should say
not-installed)...

	-mi
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