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From: rooij@mozart.cft.philips.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Subject: Re: 1542C not taking commands!
Message-ID: <1993Jun8.120703.12538@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl>
Keywords: SCSI BSD 1542
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 12:07:03 GMT
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egan@blkbox.COM (Doug Egan) writes:


>	I am currently experiencing a SCSI controller problem with my
>	NetBSD installation. I have installed the binary distribution,
>	nothing more (at this point)... and I intermitantly get the
>	following error messages: 

>             aha0: device 0 timed out
>             aha0: device 0 timed out aha0 not taking commands!
>	     panic: should call debugger here (adaptec.c)  
>	     updating disks before rebooting...

>	NOTE: - The system hangs.
>	      - During installation the following warning message is 
>	        displayed: 
> 
>	        73 sectors in last cylinder unallocated  

>  1. Should I call Adaptec?
>  2. Has anyone else encountered this problem? 
>     What is fix?
>  3. Will I need to go into debugger?
>     (Will be hard, due to the occurances of this problem) 

As far as I know, this seems to be a terminator problem. You might
want to ask hasty@netcom.com who reported a similar problem as far 
as I remember.

>Thanks N Advance (TNA)
>Doug 
>--
>                       Doug Egan    CompuVision Research                      
>                       Internet:    egan@blkbox.com                           
>                       Friendswood, Texas                                     
>______________________________________________________________________________

-Guido