I agree. I have a 2740 and have even tried several different devices, one at
a time and as soon as the bus resets the kernel panics.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kwasigroch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 3:34 AM
Subject: aic7xxx 5.1.29 scsi bus resets
> Hi all,
>
> I experienced problems with kernel 2.2.15 with the latest aic7xxx driver
> added (5.1.29). My external 100M ZIP drive is attached to the external
port
> of my adaptec 2940 (no ultra, just fast, bios 1.23). It hangs the SCSI bus
> when I attempt to access it. I can hear the CD ROM resetting so I think
the
> driver resets the bus - but no messages (anymore?) in /var/log/messages or
> /var/log/warn.
>
> /proc/scsi/scsi/aic7xxx/0 shows that during that period (1-2 minutes, I
was
> too alerted to time it ;-) no interrupts are occuring on the adaptec and I
> can no longer access anything on the scsi bus. It recovers after some
> minutes or when I eject the ZIP disk (the driver then starts to flood
> /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn about timeouts and inaccessible
> sectors).
>
> Think I need to add that the ZIP drive uses 5 MB/s async transfers and yes
> - I disabled bus termination on the 2940. The are absolutely no problems
> with the internal scsi devices (disks, CD ROM, DAT).
>
> Kernel 2.2.14 (with aic7xxx 2.1.25) is ***NOT*** exhibiting this problem
> (so I think this is not a termination/bus issue), and I do ***NOT*** think
> this is a kernel issue but an aic7xxx driver problem.
>
> Next I'm going to try plain 2.2.15 w/ aic7xxx 5.1.28.
>
> - Is anybody else also experiencing this problem?
> - Anything else I can provide to help analyzing/fixing this problem?
>
>
> Thanks is advance.
>
>
> Mit freundlichen Gruessen / best regards
>
> Michael Kwasigroch
> FaxPlus/Open Development
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