From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 8 21:18:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.sirius.com (mail1.sirius.com [205.134.253.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4EE837BFD8 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freepix@sirius.com) Received: from jasons-pc.sirius.com (ppp-astk02-068.sirius.net [205.134.247.68]) by mail1.sirius.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA80159; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000708210855.01cb8200@mail.sirius.com> X-Sender: freepix@mail.sirius.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 21:09:48 -0700 To: Chris Hill From: Jason Scott Subject: Re: SCSI Drive - Device not configured Cc: FreeBSD Questions List In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000708112946.020c01b0@mail.sirius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a 68 pin active SCSI terminator at the end of my SCSI cable. I was told it could be the write cache in the Adaptec controller which is causing the problem. Ever heard of that before? Thanks At 12:01 AM 7/9/00 -0400, Chris Hill wrote: >On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Jason Scott wrote: > > > Yes, I left the first drive as 0 and made the second drive as 1, I > > believe. The Adaptec controller finds them both. Anything else it > might be? > >It still might be a termination issue; this is not the same thing as the >SCSI ID number, which is what you're talking about with the 0 and 1. >The SCSI bus needs to be terminated by a resistive load at the end of >the cable. This is usually part of the disk drive. > >You need to make sure the termination jumper or resistor network is >installed/switched on only on the last drive. That's *physically* last, >i.e. farthest away from the controller card. The remaining drive(s) >should be left unterminated. Most modern drives will have a single >jumper that does this. See your drive's instruction sheet for details, >or visit the manufacturer's web site. > >[snip] > > > At 10:45 AM 1/13/90 -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Jason Scott" > > > > > I have my system setup with two IDE drives, and now two SCSI drives. > >[snip] > > > > > cp: /homes2/ps/data/avs/hotpnl/secret/ppp9: Device not configured > >[snip] > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > > > >You said that the first drive was working fine and then you added the > second > > >drive. You did change the termination of the SCSI chain when you did > that, > > >didn't you? > > > > > >Josh > >-- >Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org >[1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message