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Re: Timeout problems with Exabyte 8200
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Wed Apr 23 04:45:50 1997
From: schaefer@alphanet.ch (Marc SCHAEFER)
Date: 22 Apr 1997 21:23:28 +0200
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Skeet Fischer (skeet@Bridgewater.EDU) wrote:
> I am trying to get an Exabyte 8200 SCSI tape drive to work under Linux.
> When booting, the kernel recognizes the existence of a SCSI device at the
> tape drive's SCSI address, but it times out trying to access the device.
> This is what I'm getting in the logfile:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 241D
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Linux vulcan 2.0.27 #17 Sat Feb 1 18:32:26 MET 1997 i586
ncr53c7xx driver
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 19, scsi1, channel 0, id 4,
> lun 0 0x00 00 00 00 00 00
test unit ready. More or less the first command you send to any device.
> I am running Slackware 3.1 with kernel 2.1.33, all updated libs and utils,
Did you try 2.0.30 ? Did you try to disable command queuing ?
