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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: AHA2940 problems
Date: 23 Dec 1996 21:57:04 GMT
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phil@ns.qnis.net (Phil Jensen) wrote:

> ... a NEC 8Xi internal
> cdrom drive
> 
> The problem occurs almost every time I try to play an audio cd in the
> cdrom drive, and sometimes when I'm using dump to backup my system.
> When I try to play audio cd's, I start getting a TON of kernel errors
> relating to my scsi.  They go something like this:
> 
> ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset.  2 SCBs aborted
> sd1(ahc0:1:0): timed out in dataout phase, SCSISIGI==0x0
> SEQADDR==0x0

The NEC drives seem to have serious problems with the latest FreeBSD
ahc driver.  I know that Justin Gibbs is working on improving the
driver, but ran into some problems lately... i think he needs a SCSI
bus hardware analyzer, but failed to get access to one.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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