Re: SCSI tape problems
I have an AVA-1505 working properly. Dumb question, but do you have the
IRQ on the card set to what you are having LILO pass to the kernel? That
could be the reason for the error message you're getting.
Matt
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Glenn Tenney KOTJ wrote:
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>
> Can't anyone please offer some assistance... I'd really like to get SCSI
> working...
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> In article <tenney-2903980251580001@99.think.84.157.209.in-addr.arpa>,
> tenney@org.think (Glenn Tenney KOTJ) wrote:
> > Well, I spent the evening getting the Adaptec AVA-1505 card working. I
> > finally got it so that the system now boots and sees the card. This card
> > is supposed to be supported by the AHA152x support.
> >
> > Here are the kern.log messages now (heads of each line clipped for
> > breavity) from when I just rebooted. I have one 1/4 inch Teac tape drive
> > on ID 1 (with a tape in it):
> >
> > kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
> > kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7,
> > reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100,
> > extended translation=disabled
> > kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
> > kernel: aha152x: IRQ 11 possibly wrong. Please verify.
> > kernel: scsi1 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $
> > kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> > kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi1, channel 0,
> > id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> > kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi1, channel 0,
> > id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> > kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1, scsi1, channel 0,
> > id 1, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> > kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1, scsi1, channel 0,
> > id 1, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
> > ... and so on through id 7
> >
> > The problems I have now (for which I'd appreciate some ideas) are:
> >
> > 1. What can I do about the IRQ being "possibly wrong"?
> >
> > 2. It doesn't seem to find the tape drive... I really want to use it for
> > backups, so what can I do? The last time I had the drive turned on it
> > was on a Mac and worked aok; the last time I used the cable, it too worked
> > ok.
> >
> > Thanks for any help... suggestions... pointers... And, yes, I have read
> > the SCSI how-to's...
> >
>
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