On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 05:59, roncordell@attbi.com wrote:
Yes, I did turn off the onboard IDE stuff as you suggest.
Your idea of using the manual installation and specifying the aic7xxx_old driver was something that I hadn't thought of. I'll give that a try.
The reason that I wanted to try two SCSI cards is for two reasons:
1. One of the hard drives is not a wide device, so I wanted to put that drive on a different card, with the CD and DVD, keeping the faster wide devices on their own card, just as you mention.
2. I have been experiencing read errors on various devices with everything on the one 2640U2W card, so I was experimenting to see if the problem would go away. Since the card was in PCI slot 2, I was thinking that it may be a shared interrupt issue, but I am not certain. I thought of trying the aic7xxx_old driver to see if this resolved anything as well.
I am expecting to receive an Adaptec 29160 card any day now, and I may give that a try, but I don't have a 64 bit PCI slot to place it in.
-ronc
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