Re: aic7xxx / AHA2940 worries... anyone?

Daniel M. Eischen (deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org)
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 01:09:30 -0400

> I think that there is a reliability problem either in the driver or
> adapter for 2940UW. I have been having failures ever since 2.1.29 (though
> not quite as bad as yours) that seem to have gone away when using the
> BusLogic BT-958 and the Asus PCI-SC875. With those two cards, I can run
> Bonnie on 2GB files all day long (I have been doing just that today) with
> no problems.=20

I just looked through some old email I had from you:

> As I have mentioned in the past, there may have been a reliability issue,
> I now have the aic7xxx-Jul22.tgz driver (not yet performance tested
> though), in the next few days I'll be doing a test with 2940 and 958 (both
> with latest drivers) to try to guage the reliability. Just on the side, I
> have been hammering my system really hard since I installed the Jul22
> driver and it has been amazingly reliable. I always have a couple of rc5
> clients in the background even when I build kernels and the like. No
> crashes or hangs.

2.1.48 should have the same driver in it was in the July22 release
that you used referred to above.

Are you still using:
> My system is a two way P6 with 3 scsi cards each with 3 IBM DORS
> 2.1B UW disks all nine disks grouped and raid0

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org