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Re: buslogic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter T. Breuer)
Sat Nov 16 08:10:04 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:35:07 GMT
From: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es>
To: mjacob@feral.feral.com (Matthew Jacob)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In article <9611160025.AA06904@feral.com> you wrote:
: I have a BT958 with almost exactly the same other h/w as you,
: and I'm fine. I wonder what the difference between that and th 956 is?
For one thing, it moves. I walked in this morning and found the box wailing
for help. The monitor won't light and it just beeps on bootup. It was Ok at
12.30pm last night when it sent me its system stats via a cronjob (this is
under FreeBSD).
Since it was dead, I opened up the box and took it apart. It looks to
me as if the seagates (ST15230W) have no jumpers of any sort on, which
according to the "manual", means that they are both terminated? But who
can understand the manual. Which particular subcase of which card I am
in is not exactly crystal clear. The cable goes from the BT-956C
controller to drive 0 to drive 1, so that looks like smoke-inhalation
time to me! (No - I did not do any installation on this machine after
it came here from the shop, but the technicians have been at it). I
suppose the controller is auto-terminated too? I don't have a a manual
for that. In any case - wouldn't I need to jumper the drives so that
they know which is 0 and which is 1? Or can they tell by position?
Any advice? I have never had to deal with scsi's before. Honest, when
I left last night all was well!
--
Peter T. Breuer
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