[4996] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Argh. *beating head upon desk*
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Jacob)
Sun Oct 25 12:06:14 1998
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:39:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com
To: Rob Thomas <rob@rpi.net.au>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3632B843.A54CB3D5@rpi.net.au>
Cabling is too long, possibly, for Ultra mode, or termination isn't
being set right. Derate in the BIOS the speed down
to 5 or 10Mhz, or even run it Async, and see what happens.
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Rob Thomas wrote:
> This has me totally stumped. I've got a machine that usually runs 2.0.35
> without a problem, and until recently (last tested 2.1.121) has been working
> fine. Today I thought I'd have a play with .126, and I'm getting all these
> SCSI timeouts!
>
> It's a AHA7880, talking to quite a few hard drives, but I've stripped it back
> to one drive, a 4gig Micropolis Ultrawide drive.
>
> It's detecting fine, but after the '1 SCSI disk..' line, it's coming up with:
>
> (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
> SCSI host 0 abort (pid 2) timed out - resetting
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 2) timed out - trying harder
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
>
> [and repeat, ad infinitum]
>
> I've checked the termination, all seems good.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions?
>
> BTW - is there an archive of linux-scsi anywhere? I went crawling through
> altavista, and it was quite un-helpful. 8-(
>
> --Rob
>
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