From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri May 16 06:19:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA27755 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 06:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.ukrv.de (gatekeeper.ukrv.de [193.175.72.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA27749 for ; Fri, 16 May 1997 06:19:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gatekeeper.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/17Oct95-0336PM) id AA28011; Fri, 16 May 1997 15:19:09 +0200 Received: from mailhost(193.175.66.33) by gatekeeper.ukrv.de via smap (V1.3-JSC) id sma011885; Fri May 16 15:18:45 1997 Received: from merlin.ukrv.de by mailhost.ukrv.de; (5.65/1.1.8.2/08Mar95-0213PM) id AA25518; Fri, 16 May 1997 15:18:45 +0200 Received: by merlin.ukrv.de (4.1/UKRV-Gen PCG 0.1) id AA21560; Fri, 16 May 97 15:18:44 +0200 From: Udo Wolter Message-Id: <9705161318.AA21560@merlin.ukrv.de> Subject: Some SCSI questions To: scsi@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 15:18:44 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi ! I have some general questions regarding SCSI. First I'll show my System: left end: Pioneer CD Rom (10x) terminated middle: HP 2GB, Quantum 3.2GB, Adaptec 2940AU, Philips CDD2000 right end: Fujitsu 1GB When I'm working with this configuration I sometimes has the problem that the Fujitsu is goin' down for some seconds and then it goes up again. It has nothing to do with the cables because I switched them with other devices but there were only these dropouts at the Fujitsu disk. While I've been writing CDs it often happened that the test is goin' through but the real write crashes. There's no error message, the whole machine is standing still. Yesterday I took the Fujitsu disk off the bus and put the Philips CDD at the right end of the chain (terminated). There were absolutely no problems during writing (by the way: I'm writing CDs still under Win95 on a P133 which should be fast enough.) Before taking off the Fujitsu disk the buffer bar was jumping a little bit. After removing the disk it was standing still. Maybe the Fujitsu disk isn't able to terminate correct ? It has only a grey block (named RM...) which seems to be a terminator. Maybe this is an automatic terminator ? Would it be a problem if I put the disk into the chain and not at the end ? Another thing: the Quantum is an Ultra SCSI disk. I want to ride Ultra SCSI on it, but I don't have any active terminators. Is it possible to do it whith the Pioneer and the Philips at both ends ? Are they using active termination or not ? The next problem is: When I'm not using the CD writer I switch it off (not during the bus is running). Will it terminate anyway ? Will the termination work even if it's an active termination ? As long as this Fujitsu disk is further making trouble maybe I should change it. When I'm running FreeBSD and it drops off, it sometimes panics the system (not the Adaptec bug with heavy load !). Can anyone help me ? What would you do ? Bye, Udo P.S.: The Adaptec is in the middle because some of my devices (Philips & Fujitsu) are not in my tower, they're external... -- Udo Wolter, email: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de !!! LOW-TECH Page: http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~uwp/low-tech.html !!!