Re: Internal wide scsi drive problem

Erik Carlson (erik@erik.co.uk)
Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:55:56 +0100

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Not that is helps but i have encountered the exact same problem with the
DFHSS2W in my ans 500, seems like the only solution may be to replace the
drive with a vanilla flavour.
Unless anyone else has any better ideas,

Cheers

Erik

>Hi All,
>
>I just got an ANS 700, and have run into a problem with the IBM DFHSS4W
>drive that was provided with the machine. The drive works fine under
>AIX, but won't let me boot linux.
>
>Using the dusers installer.coff or vmlinux.coff, during the boot process,
>the kernel recognizes the drive, spins it up, and then gives me a series
>of repeating error messages:
>
>ncr53c825a-0-<2,0>: M_REJECT received (2:8).
>ncr53c825a-0: SCSI phase error fixup: CCB already dequeued (0xc4fd9020)
>SCSI host 0 abort (pid 54) timed out - resetting
>SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
>ncr53c8xx_reset: pid=54 reset_flags=2 serial_number=98
>serial_number_at_timeout=98
>ncr53c825a-0: restart (scsi reset).
>ncr53c825a-0-<2,0>: phase change 6-7 >ncr53c825a-0-<2,0>: phase change 6-7 7@04fd94c8 resid=4.
>
>...(and it loops back to the M_REJECT message again)
>
>If I disconnect the internal wide drive, and boot with an external narrow
>scsi drive, the machine boots ok, and the internal cdrom works correctly.
>(haven't tried the tape drive yet)
>
>Any suggestions on what I can do to solve this?
>
>I've also read some suggestions that you can do an installation on the
>external bus and then move the drive internal. Is there a way to hook a
>wide drive to the external scsi bus, and if so, what cables would I need
>to do it?
>
>Thanks much,
>
>kris
>
>Kris Noland
>Partner
>Primordial Software
>kris@primordialsoft.com

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