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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why Adaptec AHA1542 scsi with Zip disk timing out/not responding
Date: 23 Feb 1997 22:33:12 GMT
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"Richard J. White" <rjwhite@magi.com> wrote:

> I receive the following messages on bootup:
> 
> aha0 at 0x130-0x133 irq 10 drq 0 on isa
> aha0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> (aha0:0:0) timed out
> adaptor not taking commands.. frozen?!

That usually indicates SCSI-bus hardware problems, like
mistermination.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)