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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

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