> > So therefore, I spent a lot of money and bought a Bus Logic BT-958
> > SCSI Controller. This had been recommended because, amongst other things
> > "It had the best written Linux driver"....
>
> It does. Its rock solid. Its running news servers all over the world. I'd
> suggest you check your cabling, your setup, and also with buslogic if the
> card and your motherboard get one.
>
> Alan
>
Thanks Alan. The problem seems to be that I HAD to remake all the file-
systems that used this controller. This controller has a different
physical-to-logical translation of "sectors" than the Adaptec. Once
somebody wrote past some logical offset, the Linux file-system got
trashed. Once some reads of the trashed file-system occured, something
very, very BAD happened in the kernel. Subsequent writes went to other
SCSI devices. I can see part of a page partition written to my last
SCSI drive which was idle...
I have 2 2GB drives, plus tape, CDROM plus an "old" 1 GB drive. Basically
everything except the CDROM (perhaps even that) got written to...
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
Voice : (508) 977-3000 ext. 3754
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Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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