[KLUG Members] Pervasive problems continued.

[Adam Bultman]

Well, I booted from a boot CD, got in, re-compiled the 2.4.7-10 kernel, 
and got a different error message! Huzzah! This time, I get a swap error, 
4 of 'em, and then a hard crash. Oh, well.  Slackware, here I come.

adam


On 29 Jan 2002, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

-- 
Adam Bultman
adamb@glaven.org