From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 29 11:15:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA03968 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 May 1995 11:15:14 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA03962 for ; Mon, 29 May 1995 11:15:12 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA01363; Mon, 29 May 1995 11:13:55 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505291813.LAA01363@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Problems when adding a 3rd SCSI drive To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 11:13:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: ats@freebsd.first.gmd.de, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505291802.MAA26228@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at May 29, 95 12:02:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 666 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > : It may also be that you are using a portion of your cable that is bad, > : so you don't see the problem unless you attach any device to that section > : of cable. > > Or maybe it is the infamous SCSI terminator problem.... The person did cover the terminatin issue in his first posting, but I failed to notice if it was active or passive termination. When you start to run more than 2 fast scsi-ii devices you really really really should go active termination (Heck, I do it for 1 device any more!!) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD