On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:14:11 +1000 
 "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@quick.com.au> wrote:

 > biomask 1840 netmask 1c40 ttymask 1c42
 > sd3(aha2:3:0) timed out
 > sd3(aha2:3:0) timed out AGAIN
 > 
 > and game over - time for a reset.  
 > Leaving the drive powered off is the only way to get the system up.

 > If I could physically manage to get the disk inside the machine and on
 > the primary scsi bus (ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel) I would - but I'm
 > out of power connectors and am concerned about cooling...  I doubt
 > this case has enough air flow in it.  Besides, ahc0 already has 3
 > disks on it and aha2 only has a tape drive.

Does the tape drive work on that controller?  I could almost guess that
you have an IRQ misconfiguration, or something.  During device probes,
polling is used, but it's all interrupt-driven after autoconfiguration
is complete...

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