On Fri, 24 May 1996 04:40:33 +0200 (MET DST) 
 e.p.boven@student.utwente.nl (Paul Boven) wrote:

 > What I get is always a dma-error when it's time to probe the SCSI-
 > bus. It starts with "dma0: xfer(-65531) > req(5)"
 > and then a bunch of esp-errors. It will not even get a working
 > probe of the attached Quantum. I looked in the code a bit, and found
 > where and how the error-message is generated in dma.c, but that's 
 > about all I can understand of it, alas. How should I go on from here? 

Firstly, what kind of machine do you have?  Can you post the output of dmesg?

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