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  From: David Drury <idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Davis, Harvey <Harvey.Davis@dsto.defence.gov.au>
  Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 12:38:50 +1030 (CST)

Re: SCSI Help

Hi,

I'd check SCSI termination (status on the card BIOS as well as any
settings on all SCSI divices). Next I'd check the timings in the card BIOS
to make sure the divice is not set too fast.

Maybe try obtaining and compiling your own Kernel as the next step.

cya



> I have just recently purchased a CD Writer Hp 9600 and connected it to my
> red hat linux 7.0 system.
> 
> Everything works fine until the cdwriter is connected.
> 
> Once connected, the scsi bios detects the writer, linux detects and
> configures the writer but 
> during the boot process displays the following message
> 
> SCSI: Aborting command due to timeout: pid 12247, SCSI0, channnel 0, id 0,
> lun0
> read(10) 00 00 78 10 1f 00 00 78 00
> SCSI host 0 abort (pid 12247) timeout- resseting 
> SCSI bus being reset for host 0 channel 0
> 
> NOTE: SCSI device 0,0,0 is my harddisk
> 
> The machines then continues to boot.
> A dumpy of /proc/scsi/scsi reveals an entry for all of my scsi devices.
> cdrecord -scanbus reveals the cd writer
> 
> Upon using cdrecord to burn an image the process is aborted at a random
> point.
> 
> Without the cd writer the SCSI error message does not result
> My SCSI controller is an adaptec
> 
> Any help would be appreciated
> 
> Thankyou
> 
> Harvey
> 
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