Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 22:06:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: thunder7@xs4all.nl (jwk) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: something to add about SCSI errors? Message-ID: <199709162006.WAA02529@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <341ED3C1.B65@xs4all.nl> from "jwk" at Sep 16, 97 08:45:21 pm
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As jwk wrote... > First of all, are you still the maintainer? I'm not sure who you mean by 'you' but let's guess that you want an update to the SCSI docs part of the handbook. You are right that an overhaul is overdue, and I intend (and hope to have time for..) an overhaul. Things like Ultra SCSI etc come to mind. > nor under FreeBSD. > > It turned out that one of the terminators was installed upside-down. > > Some note in the handbook that this is possible and not right would be > nice, but perhaps a translation about these kernel messages: That is indeed not right ;-) > First of all, are you still the maintainer? Stefan Esser does the ncr driver. He can probably decipher the kernel messages. > nice (I didn't think terminators even had an up or a down side), but They do. It is a 220/330 ohm network for each terminated signal line. You reversed the resistors, making a non-characteristic impedance termination. Does not work well, but you may get by it if you're lucky. > I hope you can do something with this, > Jurriaan _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda
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