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Re: RE>DC390 errors (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Kitchener)
Tue Apr 7 16:16:46 1998
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 20:12:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: Stephen Kitchener <root@g6dzj.demon.co.uk>
To: Michael Firkins <michael@sa.lyppard.com.au>
cc: linux SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <980406.125331@sa.lyppard.com.au>
On 6 Apr 1998, Michael Firkins wrote:
Hi Michael,
The IBM drive that I have is a DAS 34330 565A - is this close to the one
that you have ... ?
I was advised to disable the disconnection on the DC390, I have done this
but havn't stress tested this yet...
Any more info would be usefull
tia
> Hi.
> Funny, this sounds _very_ similar to the fault I sent to the list this
> morning. The offending device for me seems to be an IBM DCAS hard
> drive. Your problem sounds like it might be associated with an IBM hard
> drive too.
>
> Is this co-incidence, configuration or conflageration?
>
> Michael
> :-)
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: 6/4/98 12:41 PM
> To: Michael Firkins
> From: Stephen Kitchener
> Hi Guys,
>
> Hope you can help,
> I have been getting errors as follows
>
> scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 917220, scsi0, channel 0,
> id 4, lun 0 Write (6) 00 00 02 00 00
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> scsi0 : AM53C974_abort called -- trouble starts!!
> AM53C974 register dump:
> IO base: 0x6400; CTCREG: 0x0000; CMDREG: 0x44; STATREG: 0x10; ISREG:
> 0xc4
> CFIREG: 0x80; CNTLREG1-4: 0x57; 0x40; 0x18; 0x44
> DMACMD: 0x00; DMASTC: 0x0400; DMASPA: 0x3623800
> DMAWBC: 0x0000; DMAWAC: 0x3623c00; DMASTATUS: 0x00
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> scsi0: aborting disconnected command
>
> Now this happens whenever I do anything that is at all intensive on any
> of
> the devices on the bus. There are 3 scsi disk drives 1 tape drive and
> one
> CD drive.
>
> I have had this error when I do a tar from any of the disks to the tape
> drive, always reports scis0. or when I was trying to format the new IBM
> 4.3 drive that I got.
>
> I have noticed something maybe, in that if I only have one disk drive
> mounted, it takes a long time for it to error, and then that shows
> itself
> up as the tar has stopped. :-(. If I mount the other two scsi drives
> into
> the directory free, is happens within a few minutes.
>
> The system is a 166MMX Cyrix with 128MB Ram, running 2.0.33. RedHat4.2
>
> Any more info, just ask. It's not on this machine, so will have to copy
> files if needed...
>
> tia
>
>
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