Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 1998 13:27:30 -0400 | From | "Russell Lambert" <> | Subject | Re: Confusing AIC 7xxx driver messages |
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That originally happened to me and the way I fixed it is that I turned Auto-Termination off. I was already terminated it on the scsi cd-rom, so the card didn't need to do it again.
Oliver Mai wrote:
> Hi! > > I'm running Linux 2.0.36pre10 SMP on an ASUS P2L97-DS mainboard > with on-board Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter. > I have two harddisks and one CD-ROM attached to the narrow > SCSI channel. There are no devices attached to the wide > SCSI channel and no external devices either. > > At bootup, I get the following messages from the aic7xxx driver: > > aic7xxx: Warning - detected auto-termination on controller: > aic7xxx: <Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI host adapter> at PCI 6/0 > aic7xxx: Please verify driver detected settings are correct. > aic7xxx: If not, then please properly set the device termination > aic7xxx: in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted > aic7xxx: during machine bootup. > aic7xxx: Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 YES) > aic7xxx: Illegal cable configuration!! Only two > aic7xxx: connectors on the SCSI controller may be in use at a time! > aic7xxx: Termination (Low OFF, High OFF) > > This is not true: There is only one cable attached to the > host adapter, and the SCSI BIOS (CTRL-A) says that Termination > is ON (Low ON, High ON), as it should be. > The messages are the same when I boot the 2.0.35 kernel. > > I hope I can ignore these confusing warnings?? > > Thanks for any help, > regards > > Oliver Mai > >
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