by Hi-
Hopefully, I'm missing something here, but...I'm running Linux from a
Slackware 2.1 distribution with a 1.1.92 kernel added. My disc drive a
1Gb IDE drive (on a PCI IDE card at IRQ 14). I just added a NCR 8150S PCI
(based on the 53c815 chip) card (at IRQ 9 in PCI slot 1) to drive an
internal CD-ROM (Toshiba 3501 at ID 2) and a newly acquired Exabyte 8200
drive (at ID 5 - I've tried it both internal & external). The CDROM works
just fine.
When I try to write to the drive, it puts some stuff on the tape, then
hangs. When I read, it reads some stuff then gets an "I/O Error". I was
thinking that it was some sort of termination problem, but as far as I can
tell it's all fine. Also, I was able to successfully backup around 70 Mb
to a tape from Windows NT 3.5, so I would guess that the termination is
OK.
I found a message I'd saved from a couple months ago where a couple of
people were having the same sort of problem. Does anybody have any
suggestions on how to get around this problem?
1) Say the magic incantation and v'oila, it works. What? Why?
2) Replace the [SCSI-1?] Exabyte 8200 with a different drive. Why?
3) Replace the NCR based SCSI card. Why?
4) Get a cheap ISA based SCSI card to tide me over until the 53c7,8xx
driver gets "fixed" to work for me. Card recommendations?
5) Switch to FreeBSD (which one of the aforementioned people said works
just fine with this setup).
6) Switch completely over to 'umsdos' and do backups from Windows NT.
At any rate, the messages I see in my /var/adm/messages go like this (this
must've been the one where I had the Exabyte as the sole device on the bus
and mounted internally):
...etc... Thanx!
Feb 22 21:43:23 sabimi syslogd: restart
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Kernel logging (proc) started.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Console: colour EGA+ 80x50, 1 virtual console (max 63)
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: bios32_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fbfe0
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: bios32_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfc370
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.00 entry at 0xfc3a0
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 36.08 BogoMips
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Serial driver version 4.00 with no serial options enabled
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: lp1 at 0x0378, using polling driver
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: snd2 <SoundBlaster Pro 4.12> at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: snd6 <SoundBlaster 16 4.12> at 0x220 irq 5 drq 6
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: snd7 <SoundBlaster MPU-401> at 0x330 irq 5 drq 0
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: snd1 <Yamaha OPL-3 FM> at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: hda: ST31220A, 1033MB w/256KB Cache, LBA, CHS=524/64/63, Mult=0/32
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: ide0: primary interface on irq 14
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : at PCI bus 0, device 13, function 0
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : warning : revision of 3 is greater than 2.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi-ncr53c7,8xx : NCR53c815 at memory 0xf0800000, io 0x6000, irq 9
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : using io mapped access
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : using initiator ID 7
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : using level active interrupts.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 ; burst length 8
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : using 40MHz SCSI clock
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : m_to_n = 0x90, n_to_m = 0xa0, n_to_n = 0xb0
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : NCR code relocated to 0x1f80dc
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : testing
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : test 1 started
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : tests complete.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : NCR53c{7,8}xx (rel 3)
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 265T
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, id 5, lun 0
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape total.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Memory: 14824k/16384k available (748k kernel code, 384k reserved, 428k data)
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.019
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.019
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 00 80 48 88 74 5a
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 10.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Hmm, FDIV bug i586 system
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Partition check:
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Adding Swap: 20492k swap-space
Feb 22 21:43:24 sabimi kernel: Adding Swap: 27644k swap-space
Feb 22 21:43:31 sabimi login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
Feb 22 21:44:32 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : DMA FIFO not empty
Feb 22 21:44:32 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : DMA FIFO not empty
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: xx001c780x001c78x001c780x001c780x001c780x001c78x001c780x001c7x001c780x001c7
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: 001f888c : 0x98080000 0x02040000
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : DANGER : abort_connected() called
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : DMA FIFO not empty
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : DMA FIFO not empty
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : unexpected phase unknown at dsp = 0x1f8884
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: 001f8884 : 0x0e000001 0x001c7809
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: 001f888c : 0x98080000 0x02040000
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : DANGER : abort_connected() called
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : DMA FIFO not empty
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : DMA FIFO not empty
Feb 22 21:45:05 sabimi kernel: scsi0 : unexpected phase unknown at dsp = 0x1f8884
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Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
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