From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Feb 8 11:41:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D420342AE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 11:41:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA31931; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:42:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from ken) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 12:42:07 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Jakob Alvermark Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec card and FreeBSD 2.2.2 (fwd) Message-ID: <20000208124207.A31905@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20000207133426.A23334@teligent.se> <20000208105150.A31083@panzer.kdm.org> <005101bf719f$b8a4a580$d14ea3c3@teligent.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <005101bf719f$b8a4a580$d14ea3c3@teligent.se>; from alvermark@teligent.se on Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 08:15:38PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 20:15:38 +0100, Jakob Alvermark wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kenneth D. Merry > To: > Cc: > Sent: den 8 februari 2000 18:51 > Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec card and FreeBSD 2.2.2 (fwd) > > > You might also want to check and see if the cable is too close to the > power > > supply. You may also want to just replace the cable with a new one and > see > > what happens. > > > > I've got a cable that looks okay, yet it caused sporadic (every few days) > > SCSI parity errors. Replacing the cable got rid of the errors. > > Broken cables seems unlikely, it happens on 4 machines, I don't think all of > them could be broken. But the theory about closeness to the power supply is > interesting. In the machine i opened, the cable was actually strapped to the > power supply. > Maybe I should let the cable hang freely? Yes, and try to keep it as far away from the power supply as possible. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message