[KLUG Members] Pervasive problems continued.

[Patrick Stockton]

It's sounding more and more like it's your SCSI controler.  Does your
motherboard have onboard IDE?  Do you have an IDE hard drive you can throw
in there?

If you remove the SCSI controler and get the same errors at least you know
it's not the controler or the drive.

Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Bultman" <adamb@glaven.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Pervasive problems continued.


> 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
>
>
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