Hello,
Some bug reports of my side
* 3c509/3c59x (isa) (i write this down this from memory)
First of all 3c509 support seems to be broken. Over ftp i get normal
download
times, but when i try to upload something i get 7 kb/sec. I had this on
two othere machines too, which are using asus boards (sp97xv i believe)
--> changed to standard NE2000 cards and the machines are fast as hell
* Adaptec 1542 is somehow broken.
(1) When you use a new pci board with this old controller, the driver
does
some silly timeouts, when you use tape. you can actually use tar
(?!)
but if you try to use tools like bru, kdat etc. the drivers
"breaks".
The kernel looses somehow information about the tape driver, and
reports
that there is no scsi-tape connected, after you did a operation with
bru
kdat etc. this brings me to my second Point, the
* Advansys proc operation is broken
AdvanSys SCSI 3.1E: PCI Ultra 16 CDB: IO B800/F, IRQ 9
(Note I changed my good old 1542 to a advansys now tape is fine)
(2) when i lost my tape i did the following trick, which worked for me
all the time.
-----------------
# A: # of the SCSI host adapter
# B: # channel (mostly 0)
# C: SCSI ID
# D: SCSI LUN (mostly 0)
echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 5 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
-------------------
*****************
Now: Kernel panic: No device found in scsi_allocate_device
THE WHOLE MACHINE FREEZES
****
Note: I do not need this script anymore for the tape purpose but to
mount
a iomega scsi zip at runtime.
* can't insert ah1520
Though there are many people which report problems with the 1520
(which leads me to the conclusion it does work for them somehow)
i cannot insert the aha1520 module into the kernel sinc 2.1.108.
There are no messages in the kernel.
insmod simply fails
(A new pci board, too i have no old boards at hand but i believe
that are some problems with newer pci boards and the old isa
drivers)
Regards
Dietmar
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