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I have a P133/64M, with an Adaptec 2940UW, 2 Barracuda 4Gs,
1 Micropolis POS, 1 Quantum Fireball 2G, Seagate DDS-1 DAT,
and an NEC-3X CDROM, running Red Hat 4.0.  Recently, there are
a few bad sectors showing up on the Quantum.  The Adaptec bios
utility was able to remap them all but one.  Here is the problem:
Whenever Linux reads from the bad sector, the whole system
locks up with a aic7780 under-run error message.  Even when
running fsck -c trying to lock the bad block.  Does anybody know
of a fix for this?  And where can I find the latest aic7780 driver?

Shing

: I have a P133/64M, with an Adaptec 2940UW, 2 Barracuda 4Gs,
: 1 Micropolis POS, 1 Quantum Fireball 2G, Seagate DDS-1 DAT,
: and an NEC-3X CDROM, running Red Hat 4.0.  Recently, there are
: a few bad sectors showing up on the Quantum.  The Adaptec bios
: utility was able to remap them all but one.  Here is the problem:
: Whenever Linux reads from the bad sector, the whole system
: locks up with a aic7780 under-run error message.  Even when
: running fsck -c trying to lock the bad block.  Does anybody know
: of a fix for this?  And where can I find the latest aic7780 driver?

: Shing

CSUB recently received a bunch of used hard drives from an oil company.  A
few were "broken" much like your drive is.  Use the low-level format
utility on the 2940UW's BIOS to fix it.  *Then* run the verify utility.
The format alone will take at least 1.5 hours to complete.  The verify
takes around 30 minutes.

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David Griffith