Re: New pre-2.0.31 patches..

Doug Ledford (dledford@dialnet.net)
Tue, 05 Aug 1997 09:09:53 -0500

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> > Hi all. I'm having problems with the aic7xxx code in this patch. I'm
> > assuming there isn't much/any difference between the July27 aic7xxx code,
> > and Linus' pre-3 patch.
>
> They are the same. I just built pre-2.0.31 and it works fine on my system.
>
> > scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.1/3.2
> > scsi : 1 host.
> > scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
> > scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
> > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > (scsi0:-1:0) Reset device, active_scb 0
> > scsi0: Resetting current channel A
> > scsi0: Channel reset, sequencer restarted
>
> The drive is hung for some reason. What are your termination
> settings? Who's terminating the SCSI bus at either end?

Additionally, we know try to negotiate wide connections with any device set
to negotiate wide connections in the SCSI BIOS settings, but we handle
results differently than the BIOS does. As a side effect, some drives you
have to manually set the BIOS to no wide negotiation to make the drives work
with the latest driver (it was a trade-off between making this item of
negotiation work or possibly thinking that a not-ready drive was refusing
wide negotation in error).

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