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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: disk timeout, SCSI reset...
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Date: 6 Apr 91 18:55:38 GMT
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In <9104051754.aa05599@VMB.BRL.MIL> Claude.P.Cantin@nrc.CA writes:


| PROBLEM SUMMARY:
| ---------------
| WREN VI hard drive as "dks0d2".
| 
|     sc0,2,0: timeout after 30 sec.  Resetting SCSI BUS
|     dksc0d2s7: retrying request
|     dksc0d2s7: retrying request
|     dksc0d2s7: retrying request
| 
|     Apr  5 16:27:24 nrcbs3 grcond[471]: CIO: dks0d2s7: retrying request
|     Apr  5 16:27:24 nrcbs3 grcond[471]: CIO: sc0,2,0: timeout after 30 sec.  Res
| BACKGROUND LEADING TO PROBLEM:
| -----------------------------
| We received a Seagate Wren VI drive from PARITY systems, already formatted
| and partitioned for our Personnal IRIS (4D/35).  It was even setup to be
| used as disk "2" (dks0d2).
| 
| I installed it on the PI, used "fx" to be sure it was partitioned.  It
| is partitioned in the same way SGI partitions their (16 MB for root,
| 50 for swap, and the rest for "/usr").
| 
...
| The hard disk is "auto-terminating", so it does not need a SCSI terminator.
| 
| That system is on one of our satellite campuses, so it's hard to keep carrying
| equipement back and forth (i.e. carry the disk here and try on our own PI,
| or come back here and get another cable, or terminator, or anything else...)
| 
| What is wrong??  anyone have any clue??  Any suggestions??
| 
| Thank you for your suggestions,

There is no such thing as an 'auto terminating' drive.  Either it has
a terminator or it doesn't.  Unless it is a completely external drive
that is the furthest scsi device from the system, it should not have
a terminator.  My guess is termination problems, or possibly a bad
cable.
--

	Dave Olson

Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.