For weeks I have been plagued with errors when trying to install Linux on my
new machine with it's Adaptec 2940U2W and Seagate LVD drives. Previously I would
receive errors such as:
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
and
SCSI host 0 ch 0 reset pid 0 timed out - trying harder
and
aborting command due to timeout: pid 0 scsi 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 0x00 00 00
00 00 00
and
host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
This would appear to loop indefinitely (I did not wait "indefinitely" to find
out!). Unfortunately, no one seemed able to determine the actual problem.
Besides installing 7.1, I had also:
* Installed an active terminator on the end of the SCSI chain, LVD side.
* Set terminiation to "auto" on the adapter, both Ultra and Ultra2 sides.
* Enabled "term power to SCSI chain" on BOTH of the LVD drives I had installed.
* Enabled termination on the CDROM residing on the Narrow/Ultra side.
I hope this message makes it to anyone else having this same problem!
John LeMay Jr.
Senior Enterprise Consultant
NJMC, LLC.
Mandrake Linux 7.0 (2.2.14) / Polarbar Mailer 1.16c
JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-20000515
