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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: SCSI/Tape problem?
To: font@Mcs.Net (Font)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:57:24 +0100 (MET)
Cc: grog@lemis.com, steve@news.cioe.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980109125101.18820A-100000@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> from "Font" at Jan 9, 98 12:55:42 pm
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As Font wrote...
> I echo Greg Lehey's lack of problems with a 2940UW and an Exabyte 8505
> (non-XL for me).  Specifically relating to termination, though, I had to
> change the Exabyte from an external wide connection to an internal narrow
> connection, because I already had a CD-ROM drive on the internal narrow
> connector and two WD Enterprise drives on the internal wide connector, and
> the 2940UW does not support the use of all three connectors at once.
> Repeat: only two of the three connections can be used at once, and
> termination should be properly configured for the types of connections
> used.
> 
> (Now if I only know what "Sending SDTR!!" meant on boot for the WD
> drives...)

Wild guess:

Synchronous Data Transfer Request ?

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