[KLUG Members] Pervasive problems continued.

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 18:32, Adam Bultman wrote:
> 
> Well, I tweaked a few settings, and it still bails.  I'm ready to 
> thoroughly blame the SCSI drive.  The errors are something to the extent 
> of Attempting to kill init, and it will give me a stack trace, some memory 
> values, and other information, with one line containing the word "Aieee!" 
> (no kidding).  It's scrolls too fast, and since it catches all other info, 
> I can't really read it, nor do I wish to explain it here.  I'm going to 
> try slackware, since it owns anyway.  I'm sure I'll complain here if it 
> fails... ;)

What controller?  I've got a mile long history of Adaptec problems,
usually due to BIOS-drivers being out of sync, as well as Adaptec's
non-direct Linux support (and virtual no support before 1998).  Many
Adaptec products (until the last year or two) didn't have EEPROMs
on-board.  So I usually pulled my hair out trying to find the right
driver for the right board-BIOS combo.

I finally stopped using Adaptec completely as of late 1998.  No problems
since.  Symbios Logic gets the call.  #1 reason why?  The are an
OEM-focused company, which means they don't hide their specs.  Adaptec
produces their own products, so they don't share their specs easily.

This is the same reason why I hate Promise too versus most other ATA
controller vendors, who are OEM-focused.

-- Bryan

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