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RE: Jaz drive woes...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dwight Hubbard)
Fri Nov 15 10:02:44 1996

From: "Dwight Hubbard" <Dwight.Hubbard@MCI.Com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:38:27 -0600
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I don't know about the BT-958, but on the BT-946 I have I had to turn off termination on the host adapter before adding an external device.

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From: 	Matt Nelson[SMTP:mnelson@dynatec.com]
Sent: 	Thursday, November 14, 1996 10:48 AM
To: 	redhat-list@redhat.com
Subject: 	Jaz drive woes...

i know this isn't exactly the optimal place to ask this question, but it's
my best connection the the linux world...

i have a PPro/200 with a BusLogic BT-958 SCSI host adapter and a Seagate
Baracuda drive, on which happily lives RH 4.0 w/updates.  i attempted to
hang an Iomega Jaz drive off the external SCSI port via a 68-pin to 50-pin
cable, and this caused the system to hang during boot.  it only gets
partway into the ROM-level initialization of the BT-958; it prints the
BIOS banner, then hangs before it gives its AutoSCSI instructions/prompt.

SCSI ID's:  'cuda: 0
           BT-958: 7
              Jaz: 4,6,1  (all give same result)

i have tried all three termination settings on the Jaz, and both ports.
i don't have an external terminator, so i haven't tried that.  the Jaz
works well on our DEC Alpha (DU v3.2).

the tech guy at BusLogic thought it was a termination problem.
Iomega now charges $20 per question, so i didn't ask them.  (btw, am i the
only one who thinks that iomega is a bunch of boobs?  their pre-canned
support documents dont even use the terms 'host adapter' and 'driver'
consistently...)

please, help this tired soul...

-matt nelson


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