Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 09:33:25 -0400 From: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> To: "Michael Akers" <mwakers@home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scsi Tape backup Message-ID: <99100209381300.00300@rknebel.uplink.net> In-Reply-To: <000701bf0c9e$ffe00220$e7dd0518@plstn1.sfba.home.com> References: <99100121403700.00324@rknebel.uplink.net> <000701bf0c9e$ffe00220$e7dd0518@plstn1.sfba.home.com>
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On Sat, 02 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Rick, > Did you set the Adaptec Card termination to off? This must be done if you > are going to have an internal device and an external device on the SCSI bus. > Each END of the SCSI bus MUST be terminated. The SCSI controller card, in > this instance, termination must be set to off. ( I am assuming here that you > are using an Adaptec card that has a BIOS setup routine. ) Actually it is set to automatic. I tried turing it to off and it did not mmake a difference. A really wierd thing I found now is that if I have the case open and the tape drive hanging out of the machine it works fine and is recognized on bootup and is fuctional. As soon as I put it in the case anbd connect it it does not work anymore. I have a atapi tape drive right above it. I don't know if this could be the problem. I also looked at the tape drive and the jumpers for parity and termination are in the on postion. I presume this is the right postion. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Rick > > Michael Akers > M. Akers Enterprises > Unix/NT Systems Administration and Systems Integration > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rick Knebel <rknebel@uplink.net> > To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 6:34 PM > Subject: Scsi Tape backup > > > > Hi, > > I have two scsi cards in my machine. > > My adaptec only had my external scanner hooked up to it. > > I purchased a scsi internal tape backup and hooked it up to this card > also. > > Now is where the weirdness starts. > > > > The scanner is id3 and the tape is id4. > > > > If I boot up without the scsi cable hooked to the tape backup the power > light > > comes on and the tape will go through the bootup process. > > > > If I connect the scsi cable the light will not come on and the tape backup > gets > > no power. > > AS soon as I disconnect the scsi cable from the tape backup the tape light > will > > come on and it will make noise. > > > > If I let the bootup process continue the scsi card complains that it did > not > > find termination. > > > > I do not understand this. > > > > Can anyone help. > > > > Thanks > > Rick > > > > > > -- > > Rick Knebel > > rknebel@uplink.net > > http://rknebel.uplink.net > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Rick Knebel rknebel@uplink.net http://rknebel.uplink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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