[KLUG Members] I drank some Nightshade.....

[Adam Williams]

>>Hw can three different SCSI controllers not work on this board? 
>IANAHG (I am not a hardware guy) BUT . . . .

Me neither,  I hate hardware.  Every major hardware project I'm involved
in ends up having some stupid problem like this.  It should work...
BUT....  One of the reasons I really love non-Intel IBM hardware - It
just bloofy friggin' works - ALWAYS.

>(This has the credibility of the all posts on slashdot that start with
>"IANAL, but" - and then proceed to give legal advice)
>Meanwhile back at the ranch . . .  BUT, I once had a similar problem -
>kinda.  Well, it was a different RAID controller, and a different pair
>of motherboards, and a different CPU manufacturer (AMD), but I did have
>the same problem - kinda!   :-)
>Back when I was building my workstation at home, I put a 3ware
>controller in a cheap motherboard and I kept getting errors.  The errors
>were worse than yours.  Linux appeared to work fine, but files kept
>getting corrupted without even a single error in any log file.  I could
>run "rpm -V `rpm -qa`" multiple times and get different files reported
>corrupted every time!

Right, that is the most frustrating.  The problem is a little different
every time.

>I tried flashing BIOS in the motherboard AND in the RAID controller. 
>Plus a ton of research and other talking with 3ware tech support. 
>I finally "solved" the problem by switching to a different, more
>expensive motherboard (ASUS), and everything works GREAT now.  See: 
> pc1h:/home/bruce$ uptime
>  8:19pm  up 83 days, 21 min, 14 users,  load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.00

I could buy that.  But it has the problem with ***THREE*** completely
different SCSI controllers - including an Adaptec 2940, which must be
the worlds most common SCSI card.

>Some people speculated it was the BIOS manufacturer, others speculated
>it was an IRQ sharing problem.  I may never know, but I don't really
>care because it's solved.  The point is, it can happen.

Yep.

>See, wasn't this post useless?   

Yep.

>Other than to make you feel better
>because misery loves company!   :-)

Being stuck at 256Mb is misery!  Especially then I open ldapv3.sxi!!!