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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.wwa.com!news.ucdavis.edu!info.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.icm.edu.pl!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news.nacamar.de!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.5.5.178!zorch!zorch.sf-bay.org!scott From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) Subject: Re: 2.1.5R and EXB-8200 hangs on write Reply-To: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org Sender: usenet@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Charlie Root) Organization: At Home; Salida, CA Message-ID: <E7418J.F10@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> References: <E71Mxr.8sE@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: localhost.sf-bay.org Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 00:26:43 GMT Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37155 >It's living on its own controller (Adaptec 1522A) with nothing else on that >bus. The system disk is on an Adaptec 2940. I read a 127MB file off of a >tape just fine. When I try to write (just using tar, nothing fancy) it runs >for a while and then the system hangs up hard. If I'm in X at the time, the >pointer won't move; if I'm at a text console, I can switch vtys but can't >actually do anything. I know it's usually considered poor form to followup-to one's own post, but I continued tinkering and made some small progress. It seems that if I swap SCSI cables around so that the EXB is on the 2940 and the system disk on the 1522A (the disk is somewhat flaky and won't share a bus with another device), I get a stable working configuration. The downside is that the 1522A is 2-3 times slower than the 2940, so my nice fast system is now a touch sluggish. For grins, I tried '/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/aic6360.c' from 2.2-GAMMA, but no luck. -- Scott Hazen Mueller | scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG or tandem!zorch!scott Boycott Internet Spam: See <URL:http://spam.abuse.net/spam/>.