Re: boot probs with aic7xxx driver... urgent...

1998-08-24 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Check your cables. A similar problem on one of my systems was caused by a bent pin on an external scsi cable. Mike On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 12:47:08PM +0200, Alexander Koch wrote: > Hi folks. > > We've a shiny new server and the resc1440 image from the current > diskset is freezing on boot whil

Re: boot probs with aic7xxx driver... urgent...

1998-08-24 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
>It's an Adaptec AIC 7880... I had this same problem, and this is not the RIGHT answer, but it did work. Boot the machine with DOS, using the DOS driver from www.adaptec.com. The DOS driver resets any microcode loaded into the Adaptec card, thus entirely resetting it. Then, go back to Linux, an

boot probs with aic7xxx driver... urgent...

1998-08-24 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi folks. We've a shiny new server and the resc1440 image from the current diskset is freezing on boot while "downloading sequencer code ... 413 instructions loaded" ... It's an Adaptec AIC 7880... Please, if anyone has an idea, please tell me. Please always cc me on replies... Thanks, Alexande