From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Apr 20 14:38:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from gate.lustig.com (gate.lustig.com [205.246.2.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 062DC14EE8 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barry@lustig.com) Received: (qmail 21496 invoked from network); 20 Apr 1999 21:29:37 -0000 Received: from devious.lustig.com (205.246.2.244) by gate.lustig.com with SMTP; 20 Apr 1999 21:29:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 3068 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Apr 1999 21:29:35 -0000 Message-ID: <19990420212935.3067.qmail@devious.lustig.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: <199904201942.VAA04015@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148.RR) From: Barry Lustig Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:29:34 -0400 To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: SCSI Failure during Amanda Backup (Unexpected busfree) Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, stable@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org Reply-To: barry@Lustig.COM References: <199904201942.VAA04015@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Organizations: Barry Lustig & Associates, Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What is odd is that it used to work. The errors only started on 4/3. Were there any CAM changes around that time that might have this effect? barry On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As sthaug@nethelp.no wrote ... > I am using all 3 SCSI connectors on the motherboard. The 50 pin connector > > Wrong. This is one SCSI bus as far as I can see. SCSI buses are linear > things, not star shaped. And they have only 2 terminators, each on every > end of the bus. > > What you may be missing here is that the ASUS P2B-DS has the Adaptec > AIC 3860 bridge (as an option), which gives you an electrically isolated > single-ended bus. So in this case, it should be possible to use all three > connectors. > > Right, that definitely makes a difference. I don't know all the Asus > boards ;-) > > For troubleshooting I still like to suggest to go back to as simple > a SCSI config as possible. > > Groeten / Cheers, > Wilko > _ ______________________________________________________________________ | > / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : >