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Re: scsi : aborting command due to timeout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (root)
Sat Feb 14 04:22:36 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:33:17 -0800 (PST)
From: root <root@fullof.blarney.org>
To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
cc: U.Soni@cs.ucl.ac.uk, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199802131204.GAA04640@iworks.InterWorks.org>
Why the hell would a cdrom or a tape drive be terminated?
On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Daniel M. Eischen wrote:
> > 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
>
