Subject: Re: SCSI timeouts my experience
To: None <port-atari@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <p9548@iupmime.univ-lemans.fr>
List: port-atari
Date: 09/18/1996 16:30:52
> > I've got also SCSI problems with my Falcon.
> > I made a clock patch with a 74F04 and it doesn't changed
> > anything. I also reduced the length of my SCSI cable. No
> > change. This happen on all my disks (Maxtor, Conner and
> > Quantum).
> Are you sure you have termination setup correctly? 
Yes i tried different configurations: 
PAssive terminator, Terminators on harddisks,
internal SCSI bus,...
Now i've got an internal SCSI bus, 3 drives with no
term, and a passive terminator and the end of the
bus.
> > I tried also Linux all last versions, and there is exactly the same trouble: scsi timeout, but Linux driver send
> > a scsi reset if there is a problem, so it doesn't hang 
> > systematicly.
> The .poll kernel shouldn't hang either. I agree that the lack of timeouts in 
> the .intr kernel is a bug.... 
Great, 
but is the Linux driver comes from the NetBSD version ?
/------------------------------------------------\
|  Falcon 14Mb/ tower / BlowUp hard II / NEC 3D  |
|        IDE 84Mb, SCSI 40, 52, 130Mb, 1Gb       |
\------------------------------------------------/
    Cedric MOREAU, p9548@bigiup.univ-lemans.fr,
	http://bigiup.univ-lemans.fr/~p9548/
 IUP MIME, Universite du Maine, 72000 LE MANS, FRANCE