Hello,
I have (at my job) some servers with SCSI controllers
AIC-7899/Ultra160, and when I make somekind of raw access like mkfs,
restore, backup, I get timeout errors.
Anyway, the SCSI bus is reset and things get going, until timeout
again, reset, go, timeout, and so on. It (take longer but) finishes, and it
seems to leave no errors on the media/fs, but I keep the feeling of "if this
goes wrong when I most need it?"
Also, the bus is always accessed at 80Mb/s, not 160, why that? On
debian (kernel 2.2) runing in the same machine it goes fine (no errors at
all, 160Mb/s).
Is there a solution for this? I've looked on archive, and found
similar topics, but no solutions.
Speed is not the most important in the process (get a new disk,
partition it, create fs, restore backup), but it is desireble.
I took a look on other floppy-distributions, but I really loved
tomsrtbt :)
Thanks in advance.
Diego Morales,
Porto Alegre, RS / Brazil
