[3349] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: timeouts!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C.J. Oster)
Mon Feb 16 16:37:12 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 10:56:13 -0600 (CST)
From: "C.J. Oster" <lordvadr@pobox.com>
To: The Root of All Evil <root@fullof.blarney.org>
cc: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>,
Dario_Ballabio <Dario_Ballabio@milano.europe.dg.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980215223701.549B-100000@fullof.blarney.org>
Termination problems. I have an internal syquest drive, which wasn't
terminated, and it caused my cd drive to show up on the id that my
cd-writer was set, and my cdwriter didn't even show up. The syquest
worked fine. Terminate _both_ ends of your scsi chain. If you have both
internal and external devices, your card is in the middle of the chain and
doesn't need to be terminated, but your last internal and external drives
need to be terminated. If you have only internal, or only external
drives, your card is on the end of the chain, and needs to be terminated
(usually set in the bios of the card) and the last drive on the other end
of the chain.
-CJO-
On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, The Root of All Evil wrote:
>
> All this time I didnt notice 1 thing about my problem with my tape drive.
> I have been having timeouts when trying to write to tapes. I finally put
> another tape drive on, another cable, and different tapes, but still the
> same thing. The tape drive ID is 4, and I hadnt noticed that the timeout
> error showed ID 2 as the device with the time out! The device which is #2
> actually is a drive containing /home, which seems to be working fine.
> Anyone have any ideas why a hard disk that seems to be functioning fine
> would cause a timeout on another device?!
>
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