timeouts on AIC7890

[Russell Brown]

Quoth Oliver Hillmann.....
>
>I run Linux 2.0.36 on a Pentium II 450 mounted on some ASUS motherboard
>which has an onboard AIC7890-SCSi UW/2 controller, connected solely to a
>Sony SDT-9000 DDS-3 SCSI DAT tape streamer.
>
>When I do backups with that tape streamer, I occasionly (actually most
>often) see them aborted, while the backup software reports end-of-tape
>(dump) or write errors (tar). Having opted for aic7xxx=verbose, I get this
>line in my logs:

Aha.....  sounds familiar:  Try setting the DAT Drive to Async in the
SCSI BIOS (^A at boot time and follow the instructions).

-- 
 Regards,
     Russell
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