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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!207.0.229.10!in-news.erinet.com!news From: Eric Ratermann <ericrat@erinet.com> Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Bizarre SCSI problem (3 disks work, 4 don't) (2940UW/Quantum Atlas II) Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 08:40:15 -0500 Organization: EriNet Online 513 436-1700 (Voice) Lines: 44 Message-ID: <32FC823F.292@erinet.com> References: <5d7201$qa@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <32FA2004.53F@proaxis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dlp1.wilm.eri.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------41736B8C11773" X-Sender: Eric Ratermann <ericrat@erinet.com> (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I) X-Priority: Normal Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:69982 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35162 ------------41736B8C11773 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Man I'm glad to hear I'm not alone on this one, I had the same problem with 4 4.5 gig FW Quantums (don't remember model) in a Ibm Server 320 with the 2940 UW. A $60.00 forced perfect terminator and a lot of dinking (that's a very high tech term for using Fuck I don't know try anything) made it work. Besides, after spending $18,000 dollars on a server I figured sixty to ease my termination worries didn't matter. ANYWAY What also worked was to enable termination on EVERY drive. It is the one of mare uncouth things I've seen done to a PC but it worked. I can dream up a few strange reasons about why but it simply don't make sense. (Any Ideas???). The system benchmarked fine afterwards, and the customer has a 8 or 10 in service. ------------41736B8C11773 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Man I'm glad to hear I'm not alone on this one, I had the same problem with 4 4.5 gig FW Quantums (don't remember model) in a Ibm Server 320 with the 2940 UW. A $60.00 forced perfect terminator and a lot of dinking (that's a very high tech term for using Fuck I don't know try anything) made it work. Besides, after spending $18,000 dollars on a server I figured sixty to ease my termination worries didn't matter. ANYWAY</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>What also worked was to enable termination on EVERY drive. It is the one of mare uncouth things I've seen done to a PC but it worked. I can dream up a few strange reasons about why but it simply don't make sense. (Any Ideas???). The system benchmarked fine afterwards, and the customer has a 8 or 10 in service. </DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------41736B8C11773--