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SubjectRe: Problem with AHA-3985 (.104pre1/.105ac4)
Phil's Kernel Account wrote:
>
> On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Vadim E. Kogan wrote:
>
> #I just got that beast. And for some reason Linux never can see devices an
> #all 3 channels - sometimes on 1, sometimes on 2. It *always* finds all 3
> #controllers.
> <snip>
> #(scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 255 during SELTO.
> #(scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 255 not valid during SELTO.
> # SCSISEQ = 0x12 SEQADDR = 0x9 SSTAT0 = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x88
> #sooner or later. Maybe the problem is SMP.
>
> Or maybe it's just the sheer speed it's going for. This is just an
> off-the-top-of-my-muddled-head guess here, but it looks to me like it's
> running out of processes or something while it's probing. Also, if you can
> adjust the sync clocking, try it at 5MHz. Once it finds the
Hmm. I'll try that. The adapter itself has no problems - i.e. I can
"Verify Media" from it's BIOS. Also, 5MHz == 5mb/s :(( The drive gives
more than 6...
> controllers, it's going as fast as it can. That's usually worked for me on
> dual-channels that were acting weird. If it takes a little more time
> looking, it's more likely that it will find what it's looking for,
> probably. :)
And as I read this I think that giving it 10 secs for reset (not 5 as
default) also might help.. will play with it a little bit more.

Vadim

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