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Re: AHA 2940 w/ Alpha/Linux

Subject: Re: AHA 2940 w/ Alpha/Linux
From: Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
Date: Wed Jan 19 13:30:30 2000


Kurt_Ludwig@student.uml.edu said:
> as soon as more than one drive was accessed at a time the thing would
> puke and reset the SCSI bus indefinately.... never tried it with just
> one drive, but it looks to be a problem of multiple drive accesses at
> the same time. Also, their auto-termination never worked quite right
> either.

My exact same conclusions with a 2940UW on my PC164. And I had a slow
device (a PD PhaseWriter) that magnified the problem, making me think at
first that the problem was the drive. Had me scratching my head for
months.

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