From owner-aic7xxx Thu Jan 15 10:45:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA25643 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:45:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx) Received: from osiris.ml.org (qmailr@bluebox.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.82.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA25613 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:44:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brianr@osiris.ml.org) Received: (qmail 10852 invoked from network); 15 Jan 1998 18:39:09 -0000 Received: from bluebox.ne.mediaone.net (HELO osiris.ml.org) (brianr@24.128.82.114) by bluebox.ne.mediaone.net with SMTP; 15 Jan 1998 18:39:09 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:39:09 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Ristuccia To: "Daniel M. Eischen" cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, roman@freebee.tu-graz.ac.at Subject: Re: Linux AHA-2940AU & Zip Plus problem (2.1.78) In-Reply-To: <199801151818.MAA23087@iworks.InterWorks.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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