Re: Any SMP people out there with SCSI CD ROMs?

Tom Eastep (eastep@loc1.tandem.com)
Wed, 02 Sep 1998 15:28:37 -0700


Mark Lehrer wrote:
>
> > Aug 23 15:40:20 home01 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to
> > timeout : pid 51621, scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 UNKNOWN(0x42) 02
> > 40 01 00 00 00 00 10 00 Aug 23 15:40:20 home01 kernel: SCSI host 0
> >
> > I even had this problem (could reproduce it) when I tried to untar
> > the 2.1.119 sources. Apparently the problem occurs when doing lots
> > of disk writes!
> >
> > This problem happens both in 2.0.35 and 2.1.119.
>
> I suspect it depends on which driver you use; I have a dual PPro 180 with
> 2.0.35, a SCSI CD-ROM, several SCSI disks, and no such problems!
>
> My controller is an AHA 2940UW which shipped with the Micron.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong on this one, of course!!
>
> Mark

I have dual PPro 150s with onboard aic7880 (essentially an AHA 2940U)
controller, 2 scsi hds, scsi DDS tape and scsi cd drive and I've seen no
problems related to the cd. I've run 2.0.34, 2.1.108, 2.1.115-2.1.120pre3.

-Tom

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Tom Eastep	
COMPAQ Computer Corporation
Enterprise Computing Group
Tandem Division
tom.eastep@compaq.com

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