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Subject: HELP : SCSI disk drive timed out
Message-ID: <CKBwHG.2o6@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 07:22:28 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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Hi,
  I am runnign FreeBSD-1.0.2, just freshly reinstalled after an old SCSI-2
Micropolis 2112 failed at powering up, and I got one replacement.

  However, this new drive does boot up nicely in a short while (a few seconds).
The problem is when I run some programs that do a lot of disk access or let
it sit there for a long time, I always get the follwing errors logged onto
consoles :

ah0:device 0 timed out
sd0:illegal request
ah0:device 0 timed out
ah0:device 0 timed out
ah0:device 0 timed out
.
.
.
and it just hangs there !

  I am running 486DX/33 with Adaptec 1542C SCSI adapter, together with another
VLB SVAG-IDE-and-multi-i/o card where a Conner CP3544 is connected.

  Does someone know is this a disk problem (well, it is a new drive), the
SCSI adapter problem, or software problem ?

  Please email me, it's urgent. Many thanks in advance!

- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C Wong)
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- wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au