From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 1 11:57:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00787 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 11:57:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from unix2.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (unix2.it-datacntr.louisville.edu [136.165.4.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00743 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 11:57:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k.stevenson@louisville.edu) Received: from homer.louisville.edu (ktstev01@homer.it-datacntr.louisville.edu [136.165.1.20]) by unix2.it-datacntr.louisville.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA79818; Fri, 1 May 1998 14:57:31 -0400 Received: (from ktstev01@localhost) by homer.louisville.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12697; Fri, 1 May 1998 14:57:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980501145730.A7582@homer.louisville.edu> Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 14:57:30 -0400 From: Keith Stevenson To: Ted Spradley Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with Toshiba XM-6201TA SCSI CD-ROM drive Mail-Followup-To: Ted Spradley , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <19980501114030.A4156@homer.louisville.edu> <199805011646.LAA07227@set.spradley.tmi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805011646.LAA07227@set.spradley.tmi.net>; from Ted Spradley on Fri, May 01, 1998 at 11:46:08AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 11:46:08AM -0500, Ted Spradley wrote: > > > First, continue to resist that urge. You don't need any more unknowns. You know you have a hardware problem, and software isn't going to fix it. > > Is there nothing else on the SCSI bus but the controller and the CD drive? If all the other disk drives work, that points to the CD drive, but if there are no other disk drives, then it could be either. About all you can do is replace the cheaper one first. Take a close look at the cables and terminators, too. Any idea what killed the power supply? Currently, the CDROM is the only device on the controller. I've borrowed an external Jaz drive from a friend and will test it out tonight. I was hoping that someone who is close to the SCSI code might recognize the error message and give me a pointer or two. I'm not sure what killed the power supply. I'm on a UPS and the wiring is up to current code, so I don't think that it was an external power hit. (No storms lately.) The power supply had been making ominous growling noised at system power-on a few times before, so I think it just finally gave out. (Kinda strange that it dies while running. It would make more sense for it to have died while powering on or off. Thanks for the advice. I'll test the jaz drive and go back over all of the cabling and terminators. Regards, --Keith Stevenson-- -- Keith Stevenson System Programmer - Data Center Services - University of Louisville k.stevenson@louisville.edu PGP key fingerprint = 4B 29 A8 95 A8 82 EA A2 29 CE 68 DE FC EE B6 A0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message