Given that the root of the problem is the aic7xxx driver that is in the 2.0.x kernel is older, and difficult to upgrade, the best solution is to slap a 2.2.x kernel on there. I am not yet at the point where I can upgrade the default (and time is tighter if anything, I just started a new job), but it isn't hard to make your own. Just compile a 2.2.x kernel with only what you need (and everything you need), plus minix-fs and floppy support and ramdisk support, unpack.s, replace 1/zImage, buildit.s, and you should be good to go. Let me know if it solves the problem (I suspect it will). -Tom
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales wrote: > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:16:34 -0300 > From: Diego Francisco de Gastal Morales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [tomsrtbt] aic7xxxx raw access problem > > 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 >
