In article <200201080053.g080rWWD002042@alcor.concordia.ca>,
Anne Bennett <anne@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>> This is a bug in the adaptek driver it seems and there is a PR for it.
>
>I can't seem to find it under "adaptek" (no matches) or under SCSI
>(looking for string "time" in results).  I don't suppose you know the
>number?

13659, 14529 [search for aic]...

>> I've seen that before. It is strange because the driver works with
>> some motherboards reliably, but with others it fails.
>
>A bug which has persisted from 1.4.1 to 1.5.2 *and* appears in
>Slackware Linux as well?  All of those boot disks has problems and
>reported timeouts.  That's why I have been suspecting a hardware
>incompatibility or misconfiguration.

I would try it with FreeBSD's driver since it is the best in this case...

>I take it that theoretically, my old SCSI board is supposed to work on
>the new motherboard?
>
>(It's back on the old system now, none the worse for the wear, but I'm
>*really* hoping to figure out a way to use it on the new system!)

The motherboard it fails on is a piece of crap [el-cheapo SiS with Celeron],
so I would tend to agree...

christos