From: "Digest" To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 01:00:00 +1100 (EDT) Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 255 Reply-To: Date:- 24 January 2002 1================================================ Subject: [os2genau] Adaptec SCSI drivers From: brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:11:56 +0930 Greetings all, I am in the midst of SCSI driver confusion. There appears to be several versions of the Adaptec 78xx family SCSI card drivers available. There are both date and size differences between the files at the IBM device driver site, the Adaptec site, and on the WSeB ConPak 2 disks. Has anyone been able to unscramble the mess and discover which is the latest, most bug free, etc... version to use. I am having problems with a tape drive in a WSeB machine that appears to be SCSI driver related and I wish to update the existing driver. Any information will be GREATLY appreciated. ----------------------------------------- Brian Butler System Administrator brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au 2============================================== From: "Ian Manners" Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:06:22 +1100 (EDT) Subject: Re: [os2genau] Adaptec SCSI drivers Hi Brian >I am in the midst of SCSI driver confusion. >There appears to be several versions of the Adaptec 78xx family SCSI card >drivers available. >There are both date and size differences between the files at >the IBM device driver site, the Adaptec site, and on the WSeB ConPak 2 >disks. Use the ones with the latest date. The ones that I am using are here :- http://www.os2site dot com/sw/drivers/scsi/7800fam.exe (Oct 2001) These work fine, and fast under WSeB. If the WSeB ones have a more recent date, try them. >I am having problems with a tape drive in a WSeB machine that appears to >be SCSI driver related and I wish to update the existing driver. >Any information will be GREATLY appreciated. Order of the drivers does make a different with SCSI, the other thing I've done, is to use a seperate SCSI card for my HD's, CDR/Scanner/Tape drive. BASEDEV=OS2SCSI.DMD BASEDEV=AIC7870.ADD BASEDEV=AHA2920.ADD BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /ALL DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\ASPIROUT.SYS DEVICE=C:\NBKSCSI\NOVASPI.SYS rem DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\SCANOS2.SYS DEVICE=C:\OS2\TWAIN\CFM512\CFMASPI.SYS I have a couple of different ASPI drivers loaded, with no apparent problems over the past few years, and all seems to work ok. What tape drive do you have ? Cheers Ian B Manners http://www.os2site dot com/ 3============================================== From: "Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist" Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:00:08 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [os2genau] Adaptec SCSI drivers Brian have sent the most recent drivers that I have on the IBM 220X server to you. As I mentioned I have a major problem only when I attempt to zip up the C drive partition (usually from a maintence D partition) and a few minutes into the activity it hangs in a big way!! No response dead!!! No mouse, no keyboard, screen frozen and I have to physically turn the machine off with its button.... I back up my server across the LAN to a WS with a Connor SCSI tape drive (Travan 4G tapes) using BA2000 Server (most recently V3) and it is usually faultless - but that is an old old SCSI card!! On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:11:56 +0930, brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au wrote: >Greetings all, > >I am in the midst of SCSI driver confusion. >There appears to be several versions of the Adaptec 78xx family SCSI card >drivers available. >There are both date and size differences between the files at >the IBM device driver site, the Adaptec site, and on the WSeB ConPak 2 >disks. >Has anyone been able to unscramble the mess and discover which is >the latest, most bug free, etc... version to use. >I am having problems with a tape drive in a WSeB machine that appears to >be SCSI driver related and I wish to update the existing driver. >Any information will be GREATLY appreciated. > >----------------------------------------- >Brian Butler >System Administrator >brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au > > Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist Smart Road Specialist Centre Modbury SA 5092 61 8 8265 4022 (Voice) 61 8 8386 1795 (Fax) gnatsmart-road dot com dot au 4============================================== Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:47:05 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: [os2genau] Adaptec SCSI drivers Hi Brian, First question - which exact Adaptec card are you using - or is this an on-board adaptec SCSI chipset ? I also had a similar issue trying to find the correct driver for my 2940 card. There were three choices, in the end I simply downloaded the latest from the DDPak Online driver site and it worked perfectly. Things to check (but you probably know this) Termination, Termination and Termination. This means - obviously you need a terminator at the end of the cables attaching internal harddrives and external devices. I prefer static (ie not electrical/dynamic) termination if at all possible but in any case, termination has to be there (and don't remove the terminator power jumper from any of the intermediate devices as well). Make sure you haven't got termination set on more than one device in the chain. And .... the one most people forget, depending on how the controller card is built, it will either simply sit in the middle of the chain of devices, in which case it should not have termination set on the card however if this is a card with multiple channels, the card end of all chains should have termination set on. This is the EXT/IN ON/OFF settings in the Adaptec bios - get the book out to make sure you have it right. Cheers/2 Ed. PS the 7800FAM.EXE on the eddie-rom that I sent over to the SA Group says: The following Adaptec SCSI Host Adapters are supported by this Family Manager Set. Ultra160 Adapters Description ----------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ AHA-3960D/39160 Dual Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI 29160 Single Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI 29160LP Single Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI (Low Profile) 29160N Single Channel 32-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI AIC-7892 Single Channel 32/64-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI ASIC AIC-7899 Dual Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra160 SCSI ASIC Ultra2 Adapters Description --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ AHA-2940U2 OEM Single Channel 32-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 Wide LVD/Single-ended SCSI AHA-2940U2B Single Channel 32-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 Wide LVD SCSI AHA-2940U2W Single Channel 32-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 Wide LVD/Single-ended SCSI AHA-2950U2B Single Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 Wide LVD SCSI AHA-3950U2B Dual Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 Wide LVD SCSI AHA-3950U2D Dual Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 Wide LVD SCSI with dual external VHD connectors AIC-7890 Single Channel 32-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 SCSI ASIC AIC-7891 Single Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 SCSI ASIC AIC-7896 Dual Channel 32-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 SCSI ASIC AIC-7897 Dual Channel 64-bit PCI-to-Ultra2 SCSI ASIC Fast/Ultra Adapters Description ------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------ AHA-2910C Single Channel PCI-to-Fast SCSI (non-bootable) AHA-2915C Single Channel PCI-to-Fast SCSI (non-bootable) AHA-2920C Single Channel PCI-to-Fast SCSI AHA-2930C Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra Single-ended SCSI AHA-2940 Single Channel PCI-to-Fast SCSI AHA-2940W Single Channel PCI-to-Fast and Wide Single-ended SCSI AHA-2940AU Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra Single-ended SCSI AHA-2940U Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra Single-ended SCSI AHA-2940U Dual Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide Internal Single-ended SCSI with 50-pin external connector AHA-2940UW Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide Single-ended SCSI AHA-2940UW Pro Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide Single-ended SCSI AHA-2940UW Dual Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide Single-ended SCSI with 68-pin external connector AHA-2944W Single Channel PCI-to-Fast and Wide Differential SCSI AHA-2944UW Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide Differential SCSI AHA-3940 Dual Channel PCI-to-Fast SCSI AHA-3940W Dual Channel PCI-to-Fast and Wide SCSI AHA-3940U Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra SCSI AHA-3940UW Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide SCSI AHA-3940UWD Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide SCSI with dual external VHD connectors AHA-3944UWD Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide Differential SCSI with dual external VHD connectors AHA-3940AU Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra SCSI AHA-3940AUW Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide SCSI AHA-3940AUWD Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide SCSI with dual external VHD connectors AHA-3944AUWD Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide Differential SCSI with dual external VHD connectors AHA-4944W Quad Channel PCI-to-Fast and Wide Differential SCSI AHA-4944UW Quad Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide Differential SCSI AIC-7850 Single Channel PCI-to-Fast SCSI ASIC AIC-7860 Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra SCSI ASIC AIC-7870 Single Channel PCI-to-Fast and Wide SCSI ASIC AIC-7880 Single Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide SCSI ASIC AIC-7895 Dual Channel PCI-to-Ultra Wide SCSI ASIC (the Adaptec.zip also in \drivers\adaptec are beta test drivers) brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I am in the midst of SCSI driver confusion. > There appears to be several versions of the Adaptec 78xx family SCSI card > drivers available. > There are both date and size differences between the files at > the IBM device driver site, the Adaptec site, and on the WSeB ConPak 2 > disks. > Has anyone been able to unscramble the mess and discover which is > the latest, most bug free, etc... version to use. > I am having problems with a tape drive in a WSeB machine that appears to > be SCSI driver related and I wish to update the existing driver. > Any information will be GREATLY appreciated. > > ----------------------------------------- > Brian Butler > System Administrator > brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au > 5============================================== Subject: Re: [os2genau] Adaptec SCSI drivers From: brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:47:01 +0930 Ed, Hi, I have had SCSI since my first PC, (1985?) and so I have covered the obvious, ie terminators. The cables and the active terminator are new BlackBox (EXPENSIVE) units that are in good order. There are three seagate HDs on the same cable that are JFS partitions mapped as one logical volume. This drive has the main file shares on a server and gets a hammering all day. The drives function fine, and have done for over 18 months. The tape drive failures are new. I have recently removed the tape and returned to supplier as it appeared it was at fault. It seems it was as the unit was replaced. After re-installing it I ran a backup and it worked fine and so I re-enabled the scheduled backups. They ran each night for three days and then the traps started again. Definitely gremlins in the works! ----------------------------------------- Brian Butler System Administrator brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au 6============================================== Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:42:03 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: [os2genau] Adaptec SCSI drivers Can we confirm we are talking about a SCSI card and not a Raid adapter please ? Ed. Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote: > > Brian have sent the most recent drivers that I have on the IBM 220X server to you. > > As I mentioned I have a major problem only when I attempt to zip up the C drive > partition (usually from a maintence D partition) and a few minutes into the activity it > hangs in a big way!! No response dead!!! No mouse, no keyboard, screen frozen > and I have to physically turn the machine off with its button.... > > I back up my server across the LAN to a WS with a Connor SCSI tape drive > (Travan 4G tapes) using BA2000 Server (most recently V3) and it is usually > faultless - but that is an old old SCSI card!! > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:11:56 +0930, brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au wrote: > > >Greetings all, > > > >I am in the midst of SCSI driver confusion. > >There appears to be several versions of the Adaptec 78xx family SCSI card > >drivers available. > >There are both date and size differences between the files at > >the IBM device driver site, the Adaptec site, and on the WSeB ConPak 2 > >disks. > >Has anyone been able to unscramble the mess and discover which is > >the latest, most bug free, etc... version to use. > >I am having problems with a tape drive in a WSeB machine that appears to > >be SCSI driver related and I wish to update the existing driver. > >Any information will be GREATLY appreciated. > > > >----------------------------------------- > >Brian Butler > >System Administrator > >brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au > > > > > > Graham Norton FRACP > Neurologist > > Smart Road Specialist Centre > Modbury SA 5092 > > 61 8 8265 4022 (Voice) > 61 8 8386 1795 (Fax) > gnatsmart-road dot com dot au > 7============================================== Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:43:16 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: [os2genau] Adaptec SCSI drivers Which backup software are you using ? Ed. brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au wrote: > > Ed, > Hi, I have had SCSI since my first PC, (1985?) and so > I have covered the obvious, ie terminators. > The cables and the active terminator are new BlackBox (EXPENSIVE) units > that are in good order. > > There are three seagate HDs on the same cable that are JFS partitions > mapped as one logical volume. > > This drive has the main file shares on a server and gets a hammering all > day. > The drives function fine, and have done for over 18 months. > The tape drive failures are new. > I have recently removed the tape and returned to supplier as it appeared > it was at fault. It seems it was as the unit was replaced. > After re-installing it I ran a backup and it worked fine and so I > re-enabled the scheduled backups. > They ran each night for three days and then the traps started again. > > Definitely gremlins in the works! > > ----------------------------------------- > Brian Butler > System Administrator > brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au > 8============================================== From: "Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist" Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:56:11 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [os2genau] Adaptec SCSI drivers Yes I think I am talking about a SCSI adapter, not sure if I would even recognise a RAID adapter if I saw one... sounds more like a new washing detergent to me! On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 19:42:03 +1100, Ed Durrant wrote: >Can we confirm we are talking about a SCSI card and not a Raid adapter >please ? > >Ed. > >Dr Graham Norton FRACP Neurologist wrote: >> >> Brian have sent the most recent drivers that I have on the IBM 220X server to you. >> >> As I mentioned I have a major problem only when I attempt to zip up the C drive >> partition (usually from a maintence D partition) and a few minutes into the activity it >> hangs in a big way!! No response dead!!! No mouse, no keyboard, screen frozen >> and I have to physically turn the machine off with its button.... >> >> I back up my server across the LAN to a WS with a Connor SCSI tape drive >> (Travan 4G tapes) using BA2000 Server (most recently V3) and it is usually >> faultless - but that is an old old SCSI card!! >> >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:11:56 +0930, brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au wrote: >> >> >Greetings all, >> > >> >I am in the midst of SCSI driver confusion. >> >There appears to be several versions of the Adaptec 78xx family SCSI card >> >drivers available. >> >There are both date and size differences between the files at >> >the IBM device driver site, the Adaptec site, and on the WSeB ConPak 2 >> >disks. >> >Has anyone been able to unscramble the mess and discover which is >> >the latest, most bug free, etc... version to use. >> >I am having problems with a tape drive in a WSeB machine that appears to >> >be SCSI driver related and I wish to update the existing driver. >> >Any information will be GREATLY appreciated. >> > >> >----------------------------------------- >> >Brian Butler >> >System Administrator >> >brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au >> > >> > >> >> Graham Norton FRACP >> Neurologist >> >> Smart Road Specialist Centre >> Modbury SA 5092 >> >> 61 8 8265 4022 (Voice) >> 61 8 8386 1795 (Fax) >> gnatsmart-road dot com dot au >> > Graham Norton President OS2 Users Group SA