On Sep 28, Anders Dinsen wrote
> [...]
> box# sd0(aha0:0:0): timed out
> sd1(aha0:1:0): timed out
> sd1(aha0:1:0): timed out
> sd0(aha0:0:0): timed out
> sd1(aha0:1:0): timed out AGAIN
> sd1(aha0:1:0): timed out AGAIN
> sd0(aha0:0:0): timed out AGAIN
> sd0(aha0:0:0): timed out AGAIN
> 
> .. notice how sd1 (the Fireball) times out twice, and right after that sd0
> times out too (sd0 has never given me problems before)!
> 
> Result: System hangs with harddisk LED on.
> 
> I suspect that bad sectors on sd1 causes this, but it puzzles me that the SCSI
> bus seems to hang because of this. Maybe it's simply a SCSI bus problem.
> 

Each time I've seen these kind of messages with an Adaptec 1542 board,
it was a scsi problem (bad term or bad cable). Even with dying disks,
errors were properly reported.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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