Re: ADAPTEC 2040U2W PROBLEM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mackinney" <paul@mackinney.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:38 AM
Subject: Re: ADAPTEC 2040U2W PROBLEM
> JM Vainio muttered:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul Mackinney" <paul@mackinney.net>
> > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 10:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: ADAPTEC 2040U2W PROBLEM
> >
> >
> > > nate muttered:
> > > > <quote who="JM Vainio">
> > > > > Hello!
> > > >
> > > > > scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > > > > scsi host 0 channel 0 reset (pid17) timed out - trying harder
> > > > > scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > > > > scsi host 0 abort (pid17) timed out - resetting
> > > > > scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> > > > > (scsi0:0:0:0) device reset, message buffer in use
> > > > > Is anyone here familiar with this kind of issues?
> > > > yep i had that occur on my 2 intel ISP2150 servers.
> > > > the workaround is to tell the driver not to reset
> > > > the card, its a kernel option you type when you
> > > > boot the system at the boot: prompt. navigate through
> > > > the help screens and it will be there, its something
> > > > like
> > > >
> > > > aic78xxx=no_reset
> > > >
> > > If your card is like mine, there are some options you can configure at
> > > boot by typing Ctrl-A, one of them has something to do with allowing
> > > resets.
> > >
> > > HTH, Paul
> >
> >
> > Well, please inform me which option you mean. I think I have tried quite many of them...:-) But if you know the one, it might help.
> >
> > And the card is Adaptec 2940u2w.
>
> Ctrl-A
> Advanced Configuration Options
> Reset SCSI Bus at IC Initialization: default= Enabled
>
> Now that I look at it, it doesn't seem too likely to help. I just
> mentioned it because I knew that I'd seen the word 'reset' in there.
>
Well I tried just that one. Like I said, the result was just the same, with the strange difference that when I removed the harddisk from SCSI bus (and had only CDroms and Zip) then the installer halted.
JMV
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