From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Nov 26 10:54: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from funkthat.com (mg128-062.ricochet.net [204.179.128.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F42837B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:54:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by funkthat.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id KAA10096; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:54:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20001126105441.34721@hydrogen.funkthat.com> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:54:41 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ncr problems (and amd) References: <20001126014805.22964@hydrogen.funkthat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3CPine=2ELNX=2E4=2E10=2E10011261423010=2E1005-100000=40l?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?inux=2Elocal=3E=3B_from_G=E9rard_Roudier_on_Sun=2C_Nov_26?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C_2000_at_02=3A32=3A18PM_+0100?= Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gérard Roudier scribbled this message on Nov 26: > I read your 2 messages, and the problems reported by the `ncr' driver > seems to me rather due to flaws in the hardware than to the `ncr' itself. > > Could you describe the hardware you are using and what you are doing with > it. You also may check that it is properly configured in all its parts. I > mean, clockings, cabling, cooling, etc ... ok... well, the hardware is a Tekram DC-390F. Attached hardware is: at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da0) at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (pass1,da1) at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 (pass2,da4) at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass3,da2) All are narrow except the Fujitsu. All are internal, using no special addapters. Termination is turned on on both drives at the end of the chain. Motherboard is a FICA VA-503+ VIA based chipset that is *NOT* overclocked. As for cooling, nothing special, but the case is closed and has two exhaust fans and one intake fan. When I upgraded from the Advansys Ultra SCSI card, I didn't change internal cabling for the three narrow devices (and I'd been running that for 9+ months). The cable length on the narror part of the system might be a bit long, so I plan on next crash replacing it with a cable that only has three connectors for drives instead of the current five. Though the Tekram manual lists a length of 3 meters for 4 devices or less, which I know I'm less than, for the 1.5 meters (max of 8 devices) I'm probably pretty close to. Well, it also survived daily, but I did reduce the tags all above mentioned drives to 16, which may have made a difference. But only 16 tags is so few. :( Thanks for any help you can provide. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 408 975 9651 Cu Networking "Thank God I'm an atheist, that'd just be confusing." -- cmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message