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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: Vendor specific ASCQ SCSI errors in 2.2-STABLE
To: Alan.Judge@indigo.ie (Alan Judge)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:04:23 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: gibbs@plutotech.com, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, judgea@indigo.ie
In-Reply-To: <199704241511.QAA05458@indigo.ie> from "Alan Judge" at Apr 24, 97 04:11:25 pm
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As Alan Judge wrote...
> 
> >>>>> Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> writes:
> Wilko> Any chance you can try things without the canisters?
> 
> A lot of work alright, and I'm not sure I want to do that on a
> production machine.  Bear in mind that I've never seen the same
> problem on the other bus (same config --- 4 drives in canisters).

Same drives ?

> I'll have to do some swapping, since I can't think of any better way
> to narrow down which canister.  What's the likelihood that the
> disk producing the error is in the faulty canister?

Hmm. I would not know.

> Wilko> How much stublength does each canister introduce?
> 
> Quiet a bit.  Maybe 20cm round trip.

Hmm. Long..

> Wilko> Are these canisters designed with Ultra SCSI speeds in mind?
> 
> The booklet doesn't mention Ultra, so I'd guess no.

Again: Hmmm. Ultra *is* sensitive to marginal busses.

Wilko
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