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- From: rwebb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Russell Webb)
- Subject: New Linux User: SLS 0.99 SCSI timeouts on mkfs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.074257.26600@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 07:42:57 GMT
- Lines: 56
-
- I'm a rather new Linux user myself, but I'm posting this for a local
- BBS user who I urged to try Linux. I suppose he's using SLS v0.99
- with the line patch (?) because he grabbed SLS from tsx-11 around 3 days
- ago. He's getting SCSI timeouts when he gets the point of trying to
- mkfs during the SLS installation procedure. I don't know what to tell
- him since I'm using an IDE drive and SLS 0.98pl4.
-
- I emphasize in what now seems to be classic comp.os.linux fashion:
- Please respond to steven.osman@factory.com.
- Please respond to steven.osman@factory.com.
- Please respond to steven.osman@factory.com.
-
- -Russell
- rwebb@nyx.cs.du.edu
- ---
-
- I have a Vega 3-486DSX motherboard in 386-40 configuration, with 8 megs
- of RAM, and 64 K cache.
- I have a Future Domain TMC-1680 SCSI controller (with only two floppy
- drives installed) set up with BIOS at c8000, I/O address 140 and IRQ 14.
- I have two CDC 94171-9 drives installed revision 885. (Actually,
- are Seagate's now)... and a Wangtek tape drive.
-
- First drive is sd0 at scsi1, lun 0, id 0
- second is sd1 at scsi1, lun 0, id 1, and
- tape drive is st0 at scsi1, lun 0, id 4.
-
- I've tried the system on a minimal configuration with only my
- motherboard, drive controller, and a Diamond Stealth VRAM installed.
- fdisk works properly, creates partitions ok on /dev/sda. My Linux
- partition is currently /dev/sda1, and on bootup, the system reads the
- partitions ok.
- When I try to use mkfs, it SEEMS to work, returns me to the prompt, and
- shortly (1 second or so) later, I get the message "SCSI host 1 timed
- out - aborting command".
-
- A second or two later, it fills with error messages like this (five
- lines each) :
-
- SCSI host 1 timed out - aborting command
- SCSI disk error : host 1 id 0 lun 0 return code = f030000
- scsidisk I/O error
- dev 0801, sector 332
- SCSI host 1 timed out - aborting command
-
- The sector number varies, but is always even (i.e., 332, 334, then 336,
- etc...) I'm not sure which number it starts at, because it scrolls
- fast.
-
- I'd appreciate it if you could get me some help... I can't wait to get
- this up and running!
-
- Thanks in advance.
-
- Steven
- steven.osman@factory.com
-