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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: aic7xxx driver and parity error problems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 04:42:52 PST."
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 10:27:09 -0800
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> * Also, the "disable parity checking" workaround failed here, as I got
> * "timed out in message out phase, SCSISIGI=0xe6" and stuff (I'm not
> * sure, I had to reset the machine while it was still scrolling).
> * 
> * This threw the SCSI system into a serious funk as the next three
> * reboots, from cold start, failed with a solid hang during the probe
> * from ahc0 (I've told you about this before).
> * 
> * It has come up now (with parity checking disabled), so I guess it (the
> * workaround) does work sometimes.
>
>More update.  The machine crashed shortly afterwards (running an old
>kernel), and it seemed to have caused something to go seriously wrong.
>I haven't been able to boot -current in about 15 tries, using new
>kernels, old kernels (unfortunately I have only one version, which is
>about 3 days old, which WAS running flawlessly until tonight), parity
>turned on/off, etc.  It always dies with the "sd1: timed out in
>message in phase, SCSISIGI=0xe6" (note it's now sd1).
>
>However, I managed to boot the -stable system I haven't touched for
>months.  The funny thing is, this system is on sd1.  I'm quite
>puzzled.
>
>Satoshi

Could it be a power supply problem?  Or perhaps your Atlas is causing
SCSI bus noise?  Are other 7880 owners seeing this as well with the
-current driver?

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Justin T. Gibbs
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