From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Sep 24 22:12:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29006 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:12:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28999 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA28654; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:42:21 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199809250448.WAA00972@narnia.plutotech.com> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:42:20 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Re: opinions on possible bad disk? Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, Ted Buswell Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25-Sep-98 Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > ahc0: 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