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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:39:31 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        kallio@cc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kallio@cc.jyu.fi
Subject:   Re: Repeated UNIT ATTENTION, what is it, is this serious?
Message-ID:  <199704161739.NAA13803@hda.hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970416175011.16730A-100000@itu.cc.jyu.fi> from Seppo Kallio at "Apr 16, 97 06:14:36 pm"

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> Is this a sign of some hardware problem? SCSI cable, terminator, some disk
> having malfunction? Or is this the aic7xxx driver problem I have heard?

The unit attention errors are the drives informing you about the bus
having been reset.  That is a symptom and not a problem; the bus
reset was done by the ahc driver after getting that time out.  I
can't answer as to WHY it timed out.

Peter

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