I believe the kernel was 2.0.12 under Slackware. At that time I only had
32MB RAM and no IDE drives in the machine, but things worked fine. I know
there was a pretty well-known bug in either the 2.1 or 2.2 kernel with the
aic7xxx drivers this adapter uses, but running the install with the scsi
disk image was supposed to fix that. Mine never did. It has always paniced
since RH6.0.
Drew
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Edward Dekkers
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Speed optimization for 486DX
> If VLB means Vesa Long Bus, then yes, that would describe the SCSI
adapter.
> It worked under slackware and RH 6.0, but magically started barfing up at
> boot when I went to 6.2 and up. Also (ifyou can believe it) had Windows
95
> and 98 on it until I opted for Linux. I usually started booting when I
got
> up and it would be done by the time I was finished with shower and
> breakfast. Chug chug chug.
HHmm. You got me thinking now.
The customer I helped out with that adapter - did I put RH 6.0, 6.1 or 6.2
on it? I can't remember. When was the kernel upgraded in which version?
Maybe it was RedHat 6.0 that was working. Maybe it is a kernel issue.
That's a few maybes I know, but if it is a kernel issue, I'm pretty much
lost. I'm great with hardware, but still too much of a Linux newbie to aid
too much in the way Linux works.
One thing I will say though. The customer I'm talking about has mixed
IDE/SCSI. There is only a very little difference in speeds though. I've also
found that newer hard drives spinning at 7200rpm (yes, even at non-dma
modes) are faster than the old SCSI-2 drives. If you're looking for a huge
speed increase, it really will depend on the makes and models of the drives
you have in there. Just because the Adaptec can hoon at 40Mb/s, doesn't
necessarily mean the drive will be able to match that.
>
> I didn't know about the jumpered floppy drivers. I'll have to look over
> that more closely. If I can get the IDE floppy driver working, great.
Then
> i can remove the scsi card and not worry about it. But I was kinda hoping
> to get the speed gains from using the scsi drive and use the ide hd in a
> nice little RAID setup. Oh well.
See my note above.
> About the installation, I used the network boot disk image created with
> rawrite in DOS. I wiped the HD clean with disk druid and did a fresh RH
7.0
> FTP install. Worked great, even though it took 10 hours!
Yep, that should be OK. I installed with CD (just booted from it), and I
don't have the install issues you're talking about, but I'm sure you way you
did it is OK too. Anyone like to contend that?
--
Edward Dekkers (Director)
Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd.
822 Rowley Road
Oakford W.A. 6121
+61 8 9397-1040
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