On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:18:33 +0100
> From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
> To: George Sollish <gsollish@mail.gisco.net>
> Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: AHA-1542CF timed out
> 
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:31:13PM -0500, George Sollish wrote:
> > I'm progressing with my mongrel 1.4.1 i586 setup, and just installed an
> > Adaptec AHA-1542CF to drive a Tandberg TD4120 tape and a Plextor RX-20TS
> > cdrom.  The card and devices probe and are identified correctly with no
> > apparent resource conflicts (addresses, irqs and drqs all clear comparing
> > dmesg w/ and w/o the card present), the cable is good (works on the linux
> > box that surrendered it), and no complaints from the Adaptec about
> > termination or other.  When I try to access either device I get a
> > "cd0(aha0:3:0): timed out" or "st0(aha0:2:0): timed out" message followed
> > by a "timed out AGAIN" a few seconds later and a long system hang.  I can
> > login on a second VT and continue (slowly), but a shutdown -h at that
> > point will hang after syncing.
> 
> looks like an IRQ problem. Are you sure the IRQ you're using is the rigth one ?
> The kernel may print the one it's configured to use, but not the one really
> used by the board. You'll have to check the board's dip switches.
> Are you sure this IRQ is free ? Did you mark it as used by isa in the BIOS ?
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>

Thanks Manuel, that was my problem:  I hadn't wired down IRQ 11 to ISA in
the BIOS.  

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