Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:42:20 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, Ted Buswell <tbuswell@mediaone.net> Subject: Re: opinions on possible bad disk? Message-ID: <XFMail.980925144220.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199809250448.WAA00972@narnia.plutotech.com>
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On 25-Sep-98 Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > ahc0: <Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 19 on pci0.6.0 > > ahc0: Illegal cable configuration!! > > Only two connectors on the adapter may be used at a time! > I don't know how to be much clearer than that. 8-) You can only use > two of the three connectors on a 2940UW without 'T'ing the bus. Your > system is suffering from SCSI bus signal integrety problems because of > your illegal cable configuration. I get this on a 7895 built into a Super Micro motherboard.. Which is kind of suprising since it has 2 chains, and there is one device plugged into each chain :) The BIOS is set to auto-terminate, which I was told was the cause, and to turn auto terminate off (then again, it actually works as it stands.. :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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