Ido,
I discoved that my cyclades board is using IRQ 9 -- right before my scsi
tape device tries to use IRQ 9. I think this may be the heart of my
problem... I've contacted cyclades re: changing the irq settings for this
board, so *hopefully* this will solve my tricky little problem :)
Also, I tried changing the termination setting in adaptec's scsi bios
to "disable" and then to "enable" but neither helped me out. I am told that
the automatic setting is most desirable... So I'm going to try the irq stuff
and see how it goes...
Thank you very very much for all your help!
april
-----Original Message-----
From: Ido Dubrawsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: April Escamilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Device
> Do you have the docs for the adaptec? Mine are at home with my system.
>If you do, I believe you want to disable this. I presume that you have
>devices on both the internal chain as well as the external...tape drive is
>external and you have a SCSI drive internally? If not, then your system
>is set up as IDE drives/CDROM with a SCSI tape (external)? I don't
>remember off the top of my head, but I believe that if your tape drive is
>already terminated, you will want the Host Termination set to
>disable...maybe I can find some docs around here and check it out. In
>either case, tell me your system setup and I'll try to look it up.
>
>E-mail me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] don't check my Physics account
>constantly.
>
>Ido
>
>On Tue, 25 May 1999, April Escamilla wrote:
>
>> Ido,
>>
>> here's a thought. I've gone into the scsi bios for the adaptec
system.
>> There is an item called Host adaptec SCSI Termination and it is currently
>> set to automatic... my choices are to enable or disable this. Think this
>> may help? This from the warning I got from dmesg
>>
>> > (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
>> > (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
>>
>> Anyhoo, worth a shot...don't want to recompile if I don't have to..
>>
>> april
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ido Dubrawsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: April Escamilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 2:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Device
>>
>>
>> >
>> >Did you set the option in the kernel config for plug and play? If so,
you
>> >may want to turn it off. It looks to me like the kernel found you board
>> >at IRQ 9 and barfed on that since something else already has that IRQ
>> >registered. Since this stuff worked okay on RH 5.2, I would try turning
>> >off the plug and play option in the kernel and try that. Just a quick
>> >guess.
>> >
>> >Ido
>>
>>
>
>
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