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Subject: Re: ahc1: Someone reset channel A
From: David Zhuo <dzhuo@looksmart.net>
To: Chad "Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
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i was able to solve the problem by booting from channel B instead of
channel A. after BSD installed successfully, i switched booting from
channel A. now everything works as expected. thanks for all of your
helps.

david

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 12:08, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 01:37 , David Zhuo wrote:
> 
> > but if i boot my machine with another OS(DOS or Linux), there will be no
> > problem. if this's a hardware problem, shouldn't the other OS fail too?
> 
> depends.  I would guess that if it does it may fail in a different way.  
> Maybe it isn't the cable too.  Just my experience with that or a similar 
> bus reset error was a flaky cable...
> 
> best
> Chad
> 
> >
> > david
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 10:39, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 01:30 , David Zhuo wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> ahc1: Someone reset channel A
> >>>
> >>> what does that mean? and how to i fix this?
> >>>
> >>> i have a Adaptec AIC-7895 SCSI host adapter in a IBM M Pro machine. i 
> >>> am
> >>> pretty sure the error has to do with my SCSI drive but not sure how to
> >>> fix this. please help!
> >>>
> >>
> >> I have had similar messages on running systems when a cable has gone
> >> bad...
> >>
> >> Chad
> >
> >
> >



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