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Re: Adaptec-2940UW hangs...



I've experienced similar problem with 2940U with two disks, tape and CD Writer.
The problem was solved after I've decreased SCSI bus speed for the CD Wrter in
Adaptec BIOS.

At 09:27 AM 3/26/99 +0200, Yuval El-Hanany wrote:
>Hi,
>I've just installed an Adaptec-2940UW (my old 1542 controller has gone for
>good...) and
>I can't get Linux to boot ever since. I probe the devices and they're OK, the
>termination is
>correct (I even tried a few configurations including removing some devices), DOS
>boots OK.
>When I try to boot Linux I get the messages:
>
>(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 9/0
>(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
>
>and it hangs. Suggestions anyone...
>
>I'm using Debian 2.1 with kernel 2.0.36
>
>                Yuval
>
>
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Best Regards
Semion Lisyansky