SCSI Timeouts on my DEC Alpha (Again!)

[Eric NOULARD]

On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:19:29PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> Luis Carlos Yamamoto wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >   I am not developer, I am a user but I saw several
> > time outs if one uses faster devices with low id and slower devices
> > with high id. In my pc, I use DAT with id=0 and different disks
> > with id=4 and 6. I think adaptec 2940 series uses 0 for slower devices
> > and 7 for faster one (7=the card).
> >   If you use already in this way, I am sorry for this useless email but
> > if not, maybe you could try change and see what happens.
> >   (If you don't know how, id is enabled in each hardware and manuals
> > could indicate how to change id).
> >
> >   yours,
> > Luís
> 
> Luis, that sounds like something new to try, but I thought my boot device had
> to have a 0 ID.
> Doesn't it?

	You must be able to chose the boot ID in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS.
It is usually set to 0 but I did change mine to 6 without pb.

	It was on a onboard 2940U2W but I think the 2940UW'BIOS should have this option too.
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        Eric NOULARD
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