Re: scsi drive error - squid blocking - lost swap.state

From: <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 01:17:43 +0800

Bertrand Petit writes:
>On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 08:44:39AM +1000, Dancer wrote:
>> configuration). It's a problem with the type of hardware or the driver
>> (we only ever get this with Adaptec stuff, the aic7xxx driver, to be
>> precise).
>>
>> We don't have a cure, and the glitch is not necessarily connected to
>
> The cure is to dump Adaptec hardware. I'm hapily running
>boards based on ex-NCR, ex-ATT, ex-SYMBIOS, now-LSILOGIC chips. Asus
>has a terrific non expensive board basec on the 53c875 chip that works
>verry well, at least with the various FreeBSD kernels I operate.
>

Linux's Adaptec code has always sucked right from the beginning of time.

I suggest you either change controller, or install FreeBSD if you want
to keep the same hardware.

Adrian
Received on Wed Apr 07 1999 - 11:29:29 MDT

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