From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 17 15:38:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F76811175 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:38:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23381; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:45:54 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990218104553.A23006@caamora.com.au> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:45:53 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: scsi and a device mix Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org all i'm in a precarious position in that i have a scsi chain composed of several scsi1 harddrives, a scsi2 harddrive and a scsi2 cdrom. i;ve forgoten how to terminate the chain and lost the terminator resistor packs fo teh scsi1 drives. i've just converted to active termination on my new toy a ppro with an ibm 4g3 4k5 rpm scsi3 on an aha2940uw and one of those teflon and silver stranded scsi3 cables. this combination works a real treat. i'm hoping going to active termination will help resolve some of teh 'problems' i'm currently seeing on teh old harware .. all is some 10 year old but still good, except for teh weird scsi cable problems. as an aside, dos freebsd scsi drives handle scsi1 hard drives ? the machine in question ran freebsd 2.0.5-release upto its current v2.2.5-release inasllation. it has an adaptec aha1542b hostadapter. the machine itself is a i486dx33 vesa localbus without any localbus cards .. i've been looking ofr some but they seem to be not out thier anymore. in case it matters the hard drives are all fujitsu, a 500 mb scsi1 1/2 height a 650 mb full height 5 1/4 inch coffee warmer a conner 100 mb scsi1 and an nec 2x cdrom the original and still the best (IMO) cdrom .. grin. any suggestions would be greatly apreciated. ps, is it possible to discuss my scsi streamers device drive 'probelms' here, please ? if not where would the apropriate venue be ? regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message