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Re: Beta aic7xxx boot disk crash my machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Paul Morrison)
Thu May 25 12:52:18 1995
From: John Paul Morrison <jmorriso@Master.ConcordPacific.Com>
To: khku@tech.singalab.com.sg (Ronald Ku Kar Hong)
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 09:02:05 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9505251700.A21948-0100000@tech.singalab.com.sg> from "Ronald Ku Kar Hong" at May 25, 95 05:50:46 pm
>
> Hi,
>
> I got the aic7xxx.tgz from remus.nrl.navy.mil 2 days ago. I was so
> excited to test it out! When I boot my box with the boot image provided
> in the archive, it hang after synchronising with my harddisk. The
> following message were on the screen:
>
> aic7xxx : target 0 was synchronous at 8.0Mb/s
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, id 0, lun 0 Test
> Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
>
> Then I try to reboot and the AHA-2940 seem not responsing to any command.
> I had no idea what's going wrong! Could you give me some hints? I had to
> reset my bios as well as the controller card in order to make it work
> again.
>
> My machine configuration : Intel 486DX2-66, AHA-2940, Quantum Empire 1080s,
> Sony CDU-55S and a generic S3 video card.
I'm using the same patches with 486DX2-66, AHA-2842 and a Quantum Empire 1080
with no problems. I haven't tried it with the PCI version. Before the aic7xxx
patches (the first ones from last year) I couldn't use the Quantum Empire at all,
and we also had problems with the AHA-2940. But now we're using a DEC harddisk
so I can't report on whether it has the same problem with the AHA-2940 and
the Empire.
