[1018] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: more scsi errors :(
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Nov 25 18:14:54 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:03:22 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>, ncr53c810@colorado.edu,
Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: Jon Lewis's message of Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:57:56 -0500 (EST),
<Pine.LNX.3.95.961125114910.174V-100000@inorganic5.fdt.net>
You say there are six SCSI devices in the box --- how many of them are
connected to your news server? You know about the SCSI chain length
limitations, right? (The entire chain cannot exceed 5 meters, if I
remember correctly.) You may want to consider borrowing a SCSI
controller, and splitting the SCSI chain in half, half going to one SCSI
cotroller, and half going to the other SCSI controller.
- Ted
P.S. There's this great quote, which I love:
"SCSI is *not* magic. There are *fundamental* *technical* *reasons*
why you have to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain every now
and then."
