AHA-2930 with Linux?

[A James Lewis]

Strange, it's either terminated or not, one would assume that the driver
simply doesn't handle the autoterm setting correctly any more, although
I'm not sure that's true....

How do I determin what state the termination is in cause I cant get into
the BIOS without changing the monitor...

James

On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Doug Ledford wrote:

> 
> On 04-Dec-97 Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> >On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Doug Ledford wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> This, again, is a termination issue.  I would try to find out what your
> >> termination settings currently are for both the internal and external
> >> devices to make sure it's correct.
> >> 
> >
> >Do I set this in the CTRL-A screen (2940 bios), as an option to the
> >aic7xxx driver in Linux, or is this an issue of actual physical
> >termination?
> 
> The card termination settings are set in the CTRL-A screen (EZ-SCSI BIOS
> actually is the proper name for it).  The change is that the current driver
> is less tolerant of "iffy" termination settings.  The old driver used to
> tolerate things such as the SCSI bus only being terminated at one end, while
> the latest version will blow up if that happens.  
> 
> ----------------------------------
> E-Mail: Doug Ledford <dledford at dialnet.net>
> Date: 04-Dec-97
> Time: 14:42:37
> ----------------------------------
> 

James
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