Qlogic 1280 driver blues

[Valeriy Kirshin]

I had the same issue on PWS500a with AC1. Basically the Qlogic driver 
will hang randomly. I was never able to install on the drive attached to 
it. So I put in IDE drive and installed from IDE CDROM hoping to copy 
the system over to the SCSI drive later. No luck, Qlogic 1280 driver 
fails when there's just a little bit too much disk activity. 
Unfortunately I can't recall the exact error now, it was something about 
scsi bus being reset due to command timeout. I saw similar issues 
reported on the net but I was unable to find a resolution. So I'm on the 
IDE now :-(. And the same exact scsi setup (same controller, same drive, 
same cable, same terminator) worked and still works flawlessly on a PC 
under custom built linux.
> To the list:
>
> I managed to DL AC2, got it all from the swiss(?) mirror site
> alphahome.something.  Anyway checksum was OK, I burned it on a windows
> box at work 48X.  It would hardly read on an IDE CDrom drive.  I swapped
> out to a SCSI CDrom and got the install as far as the 1280 driver, where
> it would hang.  PWS500 and XP-667, same both.  
>
> I went back and burned CD#1 at 8x.  In the XP it got to the 1280 driver
> again and hung, I went to work in the kitchen, when I got back it had
> moved past to where it asks for the source of the install .. CDrom, NFS,
> etc. ... I hit OK and it said there was no CDrom device detected.
>
> Looks top me like there is an issue with the Qlogic SCSI driver, at
> least the one I downloaded.  I might swap back to an IDE CDrom and see
> what happens.
>
> Anyone else see this?
>
> jn
>
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