Looking for a Linux / scsi guru - or at least knowlegable

[Rick Moen]

begin Ed Burke quotation:

Ed, just so you know:  Your machine has a serious clock problem.

> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1980 05:20:17 -0700
                    ^^^^
> From: Ed Burke <burke@netgate.net>

>      I have a Pentium system with the following components:
>            Adaptec 2940 scsi adapter
>            Quantum 60108C2  (Fireball) 1Gb hd
>            Conner CFP1060S   1Gb hd

I remember having one of those Conner CFP1060S "Barbados" drives.  They
don't work on most OSes without a firmware upgrade.  Checking on-line
suggests the firmware rev. in which they fixed the problem was 203C,
fairly late in its product life.

http://www.luga.or.at/mailing-lists/aic7xxx/msg04784.html
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/other/ix/linux/docs/Conner-CFP1060S-Bug

That may or may not be your immediate problem, but it's rather likely to
be an eventual problem.  In light of how old the drive is, you might 
want to retire it.

At this late date, you might want to start out with Debian 2.2 "potato".

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