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SubjectRe: Confusing AIC 7xxx driver messages
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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