Re: New pre-2.0.31 patches..

Larry M. Augustin (lma@varesearch.com)
Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:20:00 -0700


How do you have your termination configured? Make sure you have the
upper part of the wide SCSI bus terminated when mixing wide and
narrow.

Larry

>Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 23:07:08 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Dave Wreski <dave@nic.com>
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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.
>
>The code is having problems with an older drive I have on my 2940UW:
>
>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
>
>It never finds my Micropolis drive. Its a pretty old drive, and is
>attached to the scsi-2 connector on the drive. There is a Seagate on the
>wide-scsi connector. There are no external drives. Information from
>booting stock 2.0.30:
>
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: MICROP Model: 4110-09NB_Nov18b Rev: TN0F
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
>I've tried tagged queuing and page enable both enabled and disabled, with
>same results. commands per lun was set to 8, and relay delay was left at
>15.
>
>I actually thought the July27 code worked. If there is a difference, I
>can round up that code again, and try that if necessary. Anything else I
>can do?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave Wreski