Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:41:57 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dfr@nlsystems.com, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, rivers@dignus.com, dcs@newsguy.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another ufs panic.. Message-ID: <199903282241.IAA00135@cheops.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <37231.922658651@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 28, 99 02:04:11 pm
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In some mail from Jordan K. Hubbard, sie said: > > > If this is an aha2940 or similar controller, then it doesn't support using > > all three connectors at the same time. Using both internal connectors at > > the same time as the external one is just asking for trouble. > > Let me just echo this claim. Back when I was somewhat younger and > less experienced in the ways of SCSI, I tried to do this for the > simple reason that it's the obvious thing to try when you have both > wide and narrow peripherals in the box (like a wide drive and narrow > cdrom), an external device like a scanner and absolutely no conception > of how the internal busses are actually wired. What happens then is > that you create a "Y" in your SCSI chain, with two terminators on one > end, and the fact that it worked for me at all for 5 months until I > got another drive for the wide chain and totally pushed things past > their limits is, frankly, pure amazing luck. Sigh :-( It was all working so lovely too...which did you get a new one for, narrow or wide controller ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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