Re: Problem with AHA-3985 (.104pre1/.105ac4)

Phil's Kernel Account (kernel@eiterra.nls.net)
Thu, 11 Jun 1998 01:24:33 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Vadim E. Kogan wrote:

#I just got that beast. And for some reason Linux never can see devices an
#all 3 channels - sometimes on 1, sometimes on 2. It *always* finds all 3
#controllers.
<snip>
#(scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Bad scbptr 255 during SELTO.
#(scsi0:-1:-1:-1) Referenced SCB 255 not valid during SELTO.
# SCSISEQ = 0x12 SEQADDR = 0x9 SSTAT0 = 0x15 SSTAT1 = 0x88
#sooner or later. Maybe the problem is SMP.

Or maybe it's just the sheer speed it's going for. This is just an
off-the-top-of-my-muddled-head guess here, but it looks to me like it's
running out of processes or something while it's probing. Also, if you can
adjust the sync clocking, try it at 5MHz. Once it finds the
controllers, it's going as fast as it can. That's usually worked for me on
dual-channels that were acting weird. If it takes a little more time
looking, it's more likely that it will find what it's looking for,
probably. :)

-Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net)
TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :)
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