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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 11:50:11 -0400
From:      "W. Wade, Hampton" <whampton@staffnet.com>
To:        Ricky Beam <root@defiant.interpath.net>
Cc:        AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org, dledford@dialnet.net
Subject:   Re: Linux 2.1.119
Message-ID:  <35EAC632.3011FE61@staffnet.com>
References:  <199808290845.EAA00671@defiant.interpath.net>

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Ricky Beam wrote:

> Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote W. Wade, Hampton:
> >When booting 2.1.119, during the probe phase, I get  a
> >parity error during probe of ID 5.  The kernel then IDs the
> >device as another SEAGATE SCSI disk, not a CD-ROM.
> >After the probe, I get disk refusing 16-bit transfers, using
> >8 bit (for device 5, i.e., the CD-ROM).
> >...
> >    SCSI disk SDB at ...
> >    scsi : aborting command due to timeout: pid 15 scsi0, chanel 0, id
> >5, lun 1
> >    Test unit ready 20 00 00 00 00
> >    SCSI host 0 abort (pid 15) timed out - resetting
> >    SCSI bus is being res t for host 0 channel 0
> >    (scsi0:0:5:0) Refusing WIDE negotiation; using 8 bit tansfers
> >...
>
> You didn't say if the controller was reset by the kernel prior to
> scanning for devices.  I've had problems with my system doing that if
> it doesn't reset the bus after downloading sequencer code.  It's looking
> at a flag from the controller to see if the bus has been reset, but
> sometimes it still needs to be reset anyway. (flag wrong? bug?)

There does not appear to be a SCSI reset after downloading thesequencer
code....

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W. Wade, Hampton

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