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Title: Adaptec 2940 with DOS and loadlin

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Adaptec 2940 with DOS and loadlin

Applicable to:
S.u.S.E. version: > 4.2
Kernel version: > 2.0.0

Symptom:

  1. You start Linux by loadlin either from DOS or from the DOS mode of Win95. Kernel freezes during the booting process.

    Or:

  2. You exit Linux and start DOS. While booting from DOS, the computer freezes during the load of the driver aspi7dos.sys in config.sys.

Cause:

The 2940 are themselves "small computers". They can be programmed and they possibly confirm a warm/cold start registered value too. This is why e.g. Linux performs automatically a controller reset at booting-time, to set up again any already set values. This works, but possibly it is not always reliable.

Solution:

In most of the cases this is avoided, because either

If necessary you should renounce to the Linux start from DOS.

During LILO's use, these errors do not appear in general.

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Keywords: 2940, ADAPTEC, SCSI, DOS, LOADLIN

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Impressum - Last generated: 24. Feb 1999 15:01:00 by maddin with sdb_gen 1.00.0