Re: Adaptec 2940 controller/alad driver

alastl@ix.netcom.com (John Prideaux) writes: I have seen a single 2742 freeze the scsi bus on several occasions. I'm not certain at the moment if what I am seeing is the SCO driver, the adaptec card, or the Seagate drive. We have installed a Maxtor drive in place of the Seagate with the idea of putting lots of hours on this combo. We hope to determine if the problem is with the Seagate drive or the Adaptec. George Rachor Intel Corporation >We recently installed SCO Open Server Network 3.0 on an EISA bus >dual-Pentium system with 2 Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI controllers using the >alad driver supplied by Adaptec. Since our initial configuration (end >of April) we have received unrecoverable SCSI read/write errors from >time to time. I have replaced two hard drives and one controller card >at different times (we only have 4 disks, two tapes, and a CD-ROM on >the system). Right now my thoughts are that either there is a problem >with the alad driver or with my PCI slot. Has anyone else had this >problem? >John Prideaux >alastl@ix.netcom.com -- George L. Rachor Jr. george@ormail.hf.intel.com