Sachin Garg wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Daniel Faller wrote: > > > On Friday 25 May 2001 13:55, Sachin Garg wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I am trying to install Debian 2.2 with 2.2.17 on a system with the Adaptec > > > chip supported by the AIC 7xxx driver. > > > > > > While booting up, I get messages " Trying to reset SCSI. Timed Out. > > > Synchronous at 20.0 MB/s at offset 15" These > > > messages continue and I am unable to start installation. > > > > > > We only have SCSI HDDs on that machine. > > > > > > Any ideas as to how to sort out this problem? > > Is the SCSI bus terminated correctly. When I had this message last time, I > > was using a wrong terminator. :-( > > Thanks for the prompt reply. > > I ought to have mentioned that the machine has been running NT4.0 till > now. We haven't touched the machine physically.
I had the same problem. When using larger, 10K RPM IBM disks such as DMVS18M I experienced the same thing. Solution was to build aic7xxx module with "Delay in seconds after SCSI bus reset" (CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY) setting set to 20 seconds. I don't know why reasonably modern disks have problems with fast initializing. -- Mariusz Zielinski
