On Mon, 8 May 2000, Mike McLagan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a heck of a time with a system here and I'm wondering if anyone
> out there has any good suggestions. I am at my wit's end in trying to resolve
> this.
>
> I have an Amptron PM-9600 motherboard (Socket 7, VIA TX2 chipset, Pent
> 233MMX, 1M Cache) with 128M of RAM. In the system is an Intel EtherExpress
> Pro/100, cheapy Janco (?) PCI VGA card, Adaptec 2940 U2W and a PAS 16. The
> hard disk is a Seagate ST39140W on a 68 pin cable and there's a Toshiba 6401
> 40x CD and an Ecrix VXA-1 tape drive on a 50 pin cable.
Although I can't really make any suggestions that would help you sort
this problem out, I thought I'd mention that I'm beginning to wonder about
the general stability of Adaptec's current PCI SCSI cards. I'm using a
29160 in a Tyan Trinity S1590S motherboard with 500 MHz AMD K6/2 and
running kernel 2.2.13 with the aic7xxx module. It all works fine and I've
not had any problems at all with my mix of Quantum Atlas IV on the ultra
160 port and three Seagate 1 Gbyte drives plus an old 3.4x Toshiba CD-ROM
on the SCSI 2 port.
But getting this card's BIOS to start properly is a problem - if the
system is rebooted or powered up from cold, it will hang just after the
"press Ctl A for ScsiSelect" message. The only way out is to press the
reset button but it happens again and again 4 or 5 times. Eventually,
after about 6 boot attempts, the SCSI bus scan starts, it finds all the
drives and the system then proceeds to boot up normally.
I know this is not a Linux problem - it doesn't even get as far as finding
out what o/s is on the hard disk - but the card shouldn't do this and I'm
wondering if there's some basic design flaw in it or it's BIOS. The Adaptec
2742T EISA card I used in the past in a completely different system had
this problem too although it would always boot on the third attempt.
Andy
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