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- From: wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild)
- Subject: Re: 2.1 Installation problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.153022.1737@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Keywords: SCSI hardware fault
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Jul11.204137.3031@bernina.ethz.ch> <1992Jul18.200823.3362@ans.net> <126@yoda.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:30:22 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <126@yoda.uucp> ford@yoda.uucp (Mike "Ford" Ditto) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul18.200823.3362@ans.net>
- >sangster@news.ans.net (Paul Sangster) writes:
- >>Installing Amiga Unix Essential Components
- >>a3091: 0x4F 1 0x78EAD98
- >>
- >>Does anyone know what the dump means? I presume its a tape drive read error
- >>of some sort.
- >
- >It's a failure at the SCSI interface controller chip level. In other
- >words, it's not your tape drive saying the tape is unreadable, it's
- >your SCSI interface controller saying your SCSI bus is unreadable.
- >The software can not and will not attempt to recover.
- >
- >Basically, it is a hardware problem, although it is often as simple as
- >not having proper termination on the SCSI bus. Make sure the end of
- >your bus is terminated, probably by the presense of a terminator
- >plugged into the "other" connector on the A3070.
-
- Some similar (perhaps even identical) panic happens, if you send a
- rewind command to your tape drive from AmigaDOS, and then start Unix.
- If the rewind completes after the Unix kernel takes over control of the
- SCSI bus, the device driver gets a command-completed answer to a command
- it never initiated, and this sort of confuses it and it displays such
- an error msg. Happend to me some days ago ;-))
-
- -Markus
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