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Re: Tekram DC-390

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Andree)
Sun Nov 15 09:27:41 1998

Date: 	Sun, 15 Nov 1998 12:44:06 +0100
From: Matthias Andree <mandree@sx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
To: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981114153241.671B-100000@okurut.agule.net>; from Robert Johannes on Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 03:49:15PM -0600

On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 03:49:15PM -0600, Robert Johannes wrote:
> I've the above card which has two internal connectors, one wide and the
> other narrow.  I consequently have two drives, one wide and one narrow,
> which I'm trying to run off of the two connectors.  I have a wide cable
> for the wide drive, and a narrow cable for the narrow drive.  
> 
> The problems is that when I connect both drives to the respective
> connectors, the scsi-controller bios does not detect any of them, and
> proceeds on to say, for each id (0-15), "unexpected disconnect: try to
> disable wide negotiation or sync negotiation for this device"
> 
> I've tried disabling that as the message says, but with no success.  What
> am I doing wrong?

You might need to terminate the upper half of data lines at the
host adaptor. See page 12 of your manual for details. You might also
try to disable Wide negotiation for all wide devices. 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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