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Re: scsi : aborting command due to timeout

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel M. Eischen)
Sat Feb 14 07:52:06 1998

Date: 	Sat, 14 Feb 1998 06:49:31 -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

> Why the hell would a cdrom or a tape drive be terminated?

Uhhhh, because it's at the end of the bus.  And in the
diagram there is a big "T" representing termination.

> > >        --------       --------       --------        --------
> > >     -- |      |-------|      |-------|      |--      |      |
> > >     T  |      | high  |      |       |      | T      |      |
> > >     -- |      |-------|      |-------|      |--      |      |
> > >        |      |       |      |       |      |        |      |
> > >        |      |       |      |       |      |        |      |
> > >     -- |      |-------|      |-------| AIC  |--------|      |--
> > >     T  | hd1  | low   | hd2  |       | 7880 |  low   |cdrom | T
> > >     -- | wide |-------| wide |-------|      |--------|narrow|--
> > >        --------       --------       --------        --------

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org

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