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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!europa.clark.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!filoli.filoli.com!filoli.com!filoli.com!not-for-mail From: sbjork@filoli.com (Steven Bjork) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: adaptec 2940. broken. details inside Date: 3 Jun 1997 14:35:50 -0700 Organization: Filoli Information Systems Lines: 35 Message-ID: <5n22nm$qnm$1@ssw.filoli.com> References: <0A7FE79B6E73C3DE.9756DAE53A8E7C8D.6E01AE5B838476D1@library-proxy.airnews.net> <slrn5p97bb.1uc.beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: ssw.filoli.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.hardware:76258 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42224 Steven posted: >In article <0A7FE7976D1@library-proxy.airnews.net>, Steven Bjork wrote: >>Now, I'm curious why many freebsd folks claim to not have >>seen this 2940 problem, since it seems to be completely >>hardware related. If freebsd has a workaround in their Niklas followed up my post with: In article <slrn5p97bb.1uc.beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no>, Niklas Saers <beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no> wrote: >I don't know about if it's hardware or nay as I haven't read the sourcecode. >BUT! I do know that I've worked with two Adaptec 2940 cards in one PC for a >full week ++, having had none of the problems you describe. I did however >NOT use FreeBSD at that time, but used one for a CD-ROM recorder. So I wonder, And Steven replied: Pc running dos/windows or nt? You're in the wrong groups, sorry. I've had two folks say they had freebsd problems, but noone saying they have it working, aside from someone posting that 2.1.7.1 is supposed to fix this problem. Again, no one has emailed me or posted that the adaptecs are currently working in any of their linux or freebsd hosts under the conditions I mentioned--multiple scsi disks under heavy load, such as in a news server. I'd really like to get these cards working under freebsd or linux, but so far it doesn't look like anyone knows how to fix the problem. I don't even know if the sun folks have fixed their code up to make these things work in solaris, for that matter. ../Steven