From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Aug 16 10:32:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA8337B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:32:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magic.adaptec.com (magic.adaptec.com [208.236.45.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B95943E3B for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Received: from redfish.adaptec.com (redfish.adaptec.com [162.62.50.11]) by magic.adaptec.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g7GHWHG12677; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:32:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from btc.btc.adaptec.com (btc.btc.adaptec.com [10.100.0.52]) by redfish.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08309; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.100.253.70] (aslan [10.100.253.70]) by btc.btc.adaptec.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06851; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:32:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:32:16 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Reply-To: "Justin T. Gibbs" To: Jan Lentfer Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with external SCSI device Message-ID: <948070000.1029519135@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <1029516746.2796.3.camel@jan-linnb.lan> References: <1029514410.3d5d24aa9e561@www-mail.lan> <912860000.1029515999@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <1029516746.2796.3.camel@jan-linnb.lan> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Am Fre, 2002-08-16 um 18.39 schrieb Justin T. Gibbs: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > sorry for cross-posting but I am not quite sure if this maybe a alpha >> > specific problem. >> > >> > Here is the situation: >> > I bought an external DAT streamer from ebay, whenever I try to boot >> > with the streamer connected I machine stops with: >> > >> > ahc0: Someone reset channel A >> >> Are you sure that the DAT drive is properly terminating the bus? > > I think so. The DAT is an older IBM 3440 001. The guy I bought it from > said it had an internal terminator. There's only one Centronics > connector on the case, so I can't use a terminator anyway. Most of these drives require you to set a jumper or dip-switch to nable termination. Do you have auto-termination set on the SCSI adapter or did you manually change the settings? A verbose boot from the system should tell you how the controller is terminated. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message