Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:30:03 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sym SCSI card problems during settle wait Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012121220460.77688-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200012120044.NAA18039@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Dan Langille wrote: > > I strongly suspect that your problem IS with termination. If your card is > > anything like mine (I suspect it is), then you'll notice that there is NO > > termination on the card itself! Therefore, you have to terminate BOTH ends > > of the SCSI cable (assuming only one drive). > > > > Hope this helps... > > Say what? How do you terminate both ends? Get a gun with two bullets in it? :-) I use a little thingy (I'll call it an in-line cable terminator) that plugs into the card, then which the cable plugs into. I got these from some old, old IBM drives. Perhaps you could plug an external cable into the back of the card and put a terminator on that. (I have a feeling that this will reduce the SCSI bus speed to 5MHz though...) And lastly, there are solder marks for you to mount some surface-mount resistor packs :-) Also, when you boot, does the BIOS on the card detect the disk? I've seen the card cause a machine not to boot (ie. lock up in the BIOS) if it doesn't like the disks.... > > -- > Dan Langille > The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ > NZ ADSL - http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ > NZ Broadband - http://www.unixathome.org/broadband/ > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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