Re: Are these SCSI problems kernel-related?
Doug Ledford (dledford@dialnet.net)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:02:21 -0500
getlkl@terrorist.math.ntu.edu.tw wrote:
>
> I am at the end of my wits ... can anyone help out with these two
> SCSI problems?
>
> My box:
>
> Dual PPro 200s
> Supermicro P6DNE board
> 192MB RAM
> Adaptec AHA-2940 [BIOS ver 1.16]
> Matrox Millenium, 8MB
> NE2000 clone NIC
> Seagate Barracuda 4 Narrow (ID#0)
> Seagate Hawk 2 Narrow (ID #1)
> Fujitsu 230MB MO (ID#6)
>
> I had been able to burn CDRs and CD-RWs using a
>
> Plextor 14x/32x CD-ROM (ID#3)
> Ricoh 6201s CD-RW (ID#4)
>
> Except that I could no longer do it since a couple of
> weeks ago. It seems like it was around the time that
> I changed from kernel 2.1.106 to 2.1.118 -- but I am
> not sure. Anyway, I had someone check the CD-ROM and
> CD-RW on his machine and it apparently works fine.
>
> I then tried to add a new drive to the machine-- a
> Seagate Hawk 4 SCA, with 80-to-50 pin converters. It
> does not work at all. On startup the drive is not
> detected as 4GB but as 64MB (!). The start up dmsg
> also says Wide Connection which is impossible on a
> AHA-2940, I thought. Anyway, two low level formats
> convinced me that it is not the drive itself but an
> interface problem.
I've uploaded a 5.1.0-pre10 patch on my ftp site. Please give it a try and
see if it solves your problems.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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