The Drive gave out about 2 months into the discussions
with Gerard . Backup everything & test the -hell- out
of the disk & see if any errors crop up , bonnie is a
real good disk exerciser . Hth
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> > I applied this patch to 124pre-2 and built a kernel for my problem Alpha
> > UDB box. Much better! Rather than blowing up with incessant 'time out'
> > messages (with power-down the only recovery option), it intermittantly
> > spits out a slew of them and bounces back for more.
>
> Well, the honeymoon is over. After a brief respite, the 3.0i driver on my
> UDB is back to the old behavior. I (again) re-installed the 2.5f
> driver and it works fine. I am not seeing the same misbehavior reported
> by others (message reject, etc.), it's a simple device timeout on the
> Maxtor 540SL drive that seemingly never recovers.
>
> Originally, I thought that the 2.5f driver was also broken with 2.1.124,
> but it was my error in configuration - sorry for the misleading input.
>
> Steve
>
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