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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.tcd.net!jeremy.vcn.com!user From: jeremy@vcn.com (Jeremy Malli) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Adaptec 2940W Hanging the machine? Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:16:39 -0600 Organization: Visionary Communications Lines: 17 Message-ID: <jeremy-2706961516390001@jeremy.vcn.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jeremy.vcn.com Was hoping someone might be able to set me in the right direction on this one. I'm currently using a 100 Mhz Pentium (Micronics Motherboard, Saturn PCI Chipset), an Adaptec 1540 and a 2940W for my I/O. I currently have two drives, both IBM, one on the 1540 (IBM 1080 Fast SCSI II) and a new one (IBM 2160 Ultra Fast SCSI II) on the 2940W. The 1540 works great, rarely hangs, but the drive (1080 Fast SCSI II) is on its last leg. Whenever I try to use the 2940W, no matter which drive i'm using, the system will work great, for about twenty minutes. Then, without any core dump or noticable crash, it simply hangs everything. I can't type on the console, and all processes hang. I'm using BSD/OS 2.1 with all the current kernel and binary patches. I thought this was supposed to be fixed by now... Jeremy Malli - Visionary Communications, Inc. jeremy@vcn.com // Who's General Failure and why is he reading my disk?