From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 17 02:50:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id CAA03910 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 02:50:50 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA03900 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 02:50:46 -0800 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id FAA21215; Fri, 17 Feb 1995 05:27:49 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199502171027.FAA21215@hda.com> Subject: Re: SCSI Timeout To: johnd@seattleu.edu (John C. Dietz) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 05:27:49 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "John C. Dietz" at Feb 16, 95 01:32:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 638 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John C. Dietz writes: > > We are using an Adaptec 1542b running a Quantam Empire 1080s SCSI hard > drive. On boot, when the device is changed to sd0a we get repeatedly an > error that looks like "sd0(aha0:0:0) timed out". > > We would be really appreciative if you could give us a hint? The standard answer for this is "Check your SCSI termination". Be sure it is terminated at both ends and no more than (I forget) devices are supplying terminator power. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267