From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 2 6:39:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rknebel.uplink.net (rknebel.uplink.net [209.173.88.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 799AF15001 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 06:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rknebel@uplink.net) Received: from rknebel.uplink.net (rknebel [209.173.88.243]) by rknebel.uplink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA00305; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 09:38:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rknebel@uplink.net) From: Rick Knebel Reply-To: rknebel@uplink.net To: "Michael Akers" Subject: Re: Scsi Tape backup Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 09:33:25 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <99100121403700.00324@rknebel.uplink.net> <000701bf0c9e$ffe00220$e7dd0518@plstn1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: <000701bf0c9e$ffe00220$e7dd0518@plstn1.sfba.home.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99100209381300.00300@rknebel.uplink.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To: > 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