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reset attempt fails...any ideas out there?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Betz)
Wed Nov 8 16:22:43 1995
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 13:40:13 -0200
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: alb0@gte.com (Drew Betz)
Greetings, Linux-SCSI gurus,
As a newbie, this foray into the vodoo-land of SCSI has been
most interesting. Anyhow, I'm reminded of that scene in Apocalypse
Now where Martin Sheen is talking to the soldier at the bridge (with
the grenade launcher) "He's close, man, real close..."
Well, anyway, I went ahead and got the Adaptec aha2742 (single)
and ran the EISA configuration utility to make sure the Adaptec
BIOS was installed and enabled. So far, no problemo.
I'm running Slackware 1.1.59 (maybe I'll upgrade? one thing
at a time!). Here's what I copied off of the screen. I can't
dmesg because the system hangs...
*** start transcript ***
AHA274X AT EISA SLOT 3
irq 11
bus release time 44 bclks
data fifo threshold 100%
SCSI CHANNEL A:
scsi id 7
scsi bus parity check enabled
scsi selection timeout 256 ms
scsi bus reset at power-on enabled
scsi bus termination enabled
scsi:0 Adaptec AHA274x/284x (EISA/VL-bus -> Fast SCSI 1.26/1.11/1.28)
scsi: 1 hosts
aha274x: target 6 now synchronous at 10.0Mb/s
Vendor: Seagate Model: ST410800N Rev: 0021
Type: Direct Access ANSI SCSI Revision: 02
detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 6, lun 0
scsi: detected 1 SCSI disk total
scsi: resetting for second half of retries
aha274x: attempting to reset scsi bus and card
*** end transcript ***
At this point, I can hear the SCSI drive moving. Also, the
/dev/fd0 light is staying on (I don't know why that is).
The SCSI card required that I pull a jumper to disable
floppy disk capability, as that was already being handled
by the IDE internal drive.
Any ideas on what I should do now? My reading of all this
is that the Adaptec BIOS is reading fine, the card is
being recognized, and the disk drive itself is being
recognized. I don't know what this resetting thing is
all about, and I don't know why the floppy drive light
is staying on.
Drew
