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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:25:07 +0200 (MEST)
From: Hubert Mantel <mantel@suse.de>
To: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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Subject: Re: Illegal cable configuration
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Hello,

On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Daniel M. Eischen wrote:

> > I never experienced any problem with this great driver. Everything works
> > reliable even under very high load. But I would love to get rid of this
> > message (other than removing the printk from the source of course). 
> 
> [ Illegal cable configuration ]
> 
> > Is there anything I can do to help track down this "problem"? The machine
> > is running linux-2.0.31-pre10 with aic7xxx-2.0.30-pre10-patch.gz from
> > ftp.pcnet.com.
> 
> And you're not using all three connectors, right?

No, it's an onboard Controller. It has connected one disk and one CD-ROM.
For testing purposes we connected a second harddisk. We did very heavy
stress tests on the system and didn't experience any problem so far. The
system works perfectly reliably.

> If not, I don't know how to fix it - Justin is the auto-termination
> guy.
> 
> Dan Eischen
> deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org

    Hubert