Adaptec SCSI controller problem
Doug Hardie
bc979 at lafn.org
Sun May 11 00:25:31 PDT 2003
On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 19:38 US/Pacific, Kerpal" Moore
@smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net wrote:
> Is the cable faulty? You do have a termintor on the tape drive also,
> don't you?
>
>
> Doug Hardie wrote:
>
>> I have a system with a Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter controller.
>> The original configuration had 1 disk internal and nothing external.
>> The external connector had nothing plugged into it. All worked fine.
>> However, I tried to add a DLT drive to the external connector. On
>> boot, the system hung because it couldn't find the disk. Its
>> supposed to boot off the SCSI drive. Running the adaptec scsi
>> utilities it found both the internal disk and the external DLT drive.
>> The disk has id 0, the DLT 5 and the controller 7. So, I removed
>> the cable from the system as I just didn't have time to address that
>> issue at the moment. However, it still hung at the same point in the
>> boot. No sequence of disconnection of cards, disks, connectors etc.
>> would bring back the boot capability. It consistently gets an error
>> message that there is no terminator. So, I added a terminator on the
>> external jack. It now boots properly. Something has obvioulsy
>> changed but I can't figure out what it is. I still need to use the
>> DLT - with the drive, and I need to return the terminator as its
>> borrowed. Any ideas on how to make this work? Thanks.
Terminators are properly placed. However, I don't know the status of
the cable. Its in good physical condition, but it did come out of
storage with the drive.
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