Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 21:40:26 +0000 (GMT) From: A James Lewis <james@vrtx.net> To: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AHA-2930 with Linux? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.971204213811.7738I-100000@vr1-workhorse1.vrtx.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971204144353.dledford@dialnet.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Strange, it's either terminated or not, one would assume that the driver simply doesn't handle the autoterm setting correctly any more, although I'm not sure that's true.... How do I determin what state the termination is in cause I cant get into the BIOS without changing the monitor... James On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Doug Ledford wrote: > > On 04-Dec-97 Brian Ristuccia wrote: > >On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > >> > >> This, again, is a termination issue. I would try to find out what your > >> termination settings currently are for both the internal and external > >> devices to make sure it's correct. > >> > > > >Do I set this in the CTRL-A screen (2940 bios), as an option to the > >aic7xxx driver in Linux, or is this an issue of actual physical > >termination? > > The card termination settings are set in the CTRL-A screen (EZ-SCSI BIOS > actually is the proper name for it). The change is that the current driver > is less tolerant of "iffy" termination settings. The old driver used to > tolerate things such as the SCSI bus only being terminated at one end, while > the latest version will blow up if that happens. > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net> > Date: 04-Dec-97 > Time: 14:42:37 > ---------------------------------- > James Vortex Internet 20 years ago, people were switching from UNIX to VMS... Now, everybody is switching from UNIX to Windows NT... Am I the only one who sees what is happening here?
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.3.93.971204213811.7738I-100000>