----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Mackinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:38 AM Subject: Re: ADAPTEC 2040U2W PROBLEM
> JM Vainio muttered: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul Mackinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 10:37 PM > > Subject: Re: ADAPTEC 2040U2W PROBLEM > > > > > > > nate muttered: > > > > <quote who="JM Vainio"> > > > > > Hello! > > > > > > > > > scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > > > > > scsi host 0 channel 0 reset (pid17) timed out - trying harder > > > > > scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > > > > > scsi host 0 abort (pid17) timed out - resetting > > > > > scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > > > > > (scsi0:0:0:0) device reset, message buffer in use > > > > > Is anyone here familiar with this kind of issues? > > > > yep i had that occur on my 2 intel ISP2150 servers. > > > > the workaround is to tell the driver not to reset > > > > the card, its a kernel option you type when you > > > > boot the system at the boot: prompt. navigate through > > > > the help screens and it will be there, its something > > > > like > > > > > > > > aic78xxx=no_reset > > > > > > > If your card is like mine, there are some options you can configure at > > > boot by typing Ctrl-A, one of them has something to do with allowing > > > resets. > > > > > > HTH, Paul > > > > > > Well, please inform me which option you mean. I think I have tried quite > > many of them...:-) But if you know the one, it might help. > > > > And the card is Adaptec 2940u2w. > > Ctrl-A > Advanced Configuration Options > Reset SCSI Bus at IC Initialization: default= Enabled > > Now that I look at it, it doesn't seem too likely to help. I just > mentioned it because I knew that I'd seen the word 'reset' in there. > Well I tried just that one. Like I said, the result was just the same, with the strange difference that when I removed the harddisk from SCSI bus (and had only CDroms and Zip) then the installer halted. JMV
