[3313] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: scsi : aborting command due to timeout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel M. Eischen)
Fri Feb 13 09:28:20 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 06:04:34 -0600 (CST)
From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: root@fullof.blarney.org
Cc: U.Soni@cs.ucl.ac.uk, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
> So you guys are saying that its a termination problem (the timeouts) ? I
> kinda dont agree if thats the case, because my configuration was working
> at one point for quite a while.
[...]
> > -------- -------- -------- --------
> > -- | |-------| |-------| |-- | |
> > T | | high | | | | T | |
> > -- | |-------| |-------| |-- | |
> > | | | | | | | |
> > | | | | | | | |
> > -- | |-------| |-------| AIC |--------| |--
> > T | hd1 | low | hd2 | | 7880 | low |cdrom | T
> > -- | wide |-------| wide |-------| |--------|narrow|--
> > -------- -------- -------- --------
Well, looking at this configuration, you can see that the CD-ROM
is terminating the narrow bus. It most likely isn't using active
termination, so the first thing I would try is to get an active
terminator (yes, they make them for ribbon cables too).
Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org