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Re: Some accesses hang SCSI

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Adas)
Wed Feb 1 12:31:49 1995

Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 10:03:56 -0600
From: Michael Adas <mja@telecom.wisc.edu>
To: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199502011008.KAA06563@nigel.vnet.net>


I think this is the infamous problem of the NCR driver not supporting
disconnect/reconnect.  Any operation on the SCSI bus block just about
everything else until it completes.  Thus, this is the reason I don't
have my tape drive on that controller :)

But then, I could be wrong...

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= Michael J. Adas - DoIT Installation & Repair
= An open mind tolerates and empty one.
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On Wed, 1 Feb 1995, Michael K. Johnson wrote:

> but accessing anything on the SCSI bus goes into an uninterruptible
> wait.  When it is locked up, the disk access light stays lit.

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