Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:39:09 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.ml.org> To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, roman@freebee.tu-graz.ac.at Subject: Re: Linux AHA-2940AU & Zip Plus problem (2.1.78) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980115133728.10820A-100000@osiris.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199801151818.MAA23087@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Daniel M. Eischen wrote: > > > My hardware is > ?> i586 > > AHA-2940AU (Only extern devices, therefore manual termination enabled) > > HP Scanjet 4p > > Iomega Zip Plus Drive > > Most likely a cabling/termination problem. Get an active > terminator for your chain and make sure you've got > good quality cables. You've got two devices that > seem to have a history of having bad termination > (scanners and Zip drives). > Try putting your scanner at the end of the chain, and using a real terminator (not the built in one). This is the only way I could get my bus working w/ the scanjet attached. I think the scanjet's have some sort of coin-flipping mechanism in them to decide whether or not to terminate the bus... A real terminator makes this problem go away :) -Brian Ristuccia brianr@osiris.ml.org bristucc@baynetworks.com bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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