Re: aic7xxx testers needed

Maxim Surdu (maxim@mas2000.msk.ru)
Fri, 02 Oct 1998 03:16:27 +0300


Hi,

Don't you find strange that most of the people who
has these time out problems (as well as me :)) are
using 7880 on-mother chip along with their
fast Seagate drives.... (Barracuda or Cheetah).

At 19:22 01.10.98 -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
>Richard Kaszeta wrote:
>>
>> Finn Arne Gangstad writes ("Re: aic7xxx testers needed"):
>> >It fails consistently here on Intel R440LX server motherboards with built
>> >in 7880 chips and seagate cheetah disks (all the 5.1.0-pre drivers have
>> >had some problems on these I think), I only have this configuration on
>> >production systems here so I cannot test new drivers very often.
>>
>> I see similar results on my system. Pre13 works flawlessly on my asus
>> p2b motherboard with a seagate Barracuda 34573LW Ultra2 LVD drive. If
>> I hook up a Barracuda 34572W Ultra/SE drive instead (or along with the
>> Ultra2 drive), I get a "Parity error during Data-In Phase" error.
>> This drive works perfectly with the stock 2.0.35 kernel aic7xxx driver.
>
>Do two things for me. Make sure you have the latest BIOS for that Asus MB,
>and get the pre15 driver. If those two don't fix it, then also try messing
>with the new options aic7xxx=stpwlev and aic7xxx=term_override as documented
>in the README.aic7xxx file.

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Maxim Surdu
maxim@mas2000.msk.ru
MAS Elektronikhandels GmbH
Moscow
Tel. (7-095) 7378063 (ext) 133
Fax. (7-095) 962-0333.

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