[Fwd: Re: Qlogic 1280 driver blues]

[Jon_norstog AKA "Thursday"]

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> From: Jon_norstog AKA "Thursday" <thursday at allidaho.com>
> Reply-To: thursday at allidaho.com
> To: Valeriy Kirshin <v123456 at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: Qlogic 1280 driver blues
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:48:53 -0700
> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 00:06 -0500, Valeriy Kirshin wrote:
> > I had the same issue on PWS500a with AC1. 
> Crazy! I had no problem using AC1 on a PWS, an xp/500 and an XP/667.
> 
> But for the life of me, I can not figure why the installer is selecting
> the 1280 driver for machines that have the 1040 controller.  The two are
> different enough that SRM doesn't see the 1280. Same with Tru64 IIRC.
> 
> Why does anaconda "read" the 1040 as a 1280?  
> 
> I tried to call Shadowman about it but his secretary hung up on me.
> 
> jn
> 
> 
> 
> > 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.
>