Re: reset Adaptec 1515? How??

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From: Esmail Bonakdarian
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 01:34

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From article <43t2is$b3@nexus.uiowa.edu>, by bonak@herky.cs.uiowa.edu ():
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how I can reset a Adaptec AVA 1515 SCSI card? Right
> now I have to power cycle my machine to get it to totally reset,
> booting or reseting my machine doesn't seem to do the trick.
> 
> This card controls a SONY 76S 4x CD ROM drive (it came with it) and is
> presently my only SCSI device. I have a problem when I quit Linux and
> reboot my machine, the CD ROM drive doesn't become accessible unless I
> power off/on my machine. I get the Fail, Retry, Abort message.
> 
> Does anyone how I can reset the AVA 1515 via software without having
> to throw the power switch?
 
Sorry, I forgot to add that I have an IDE card with two harddisk in
this system too. I boot off one of the IDE disks Therefore the BIOS on
the SCSI is disabled to prevent it from trying to boot up. Just in
case that this fact might be relevant.

Esmail
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Esmail Bonakdarian (esmail@uiowa.edu)
Department of Computer Science
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~bonak

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