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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.scsi:10782 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2215 Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!news.smith.edu!sophia.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) Subject: How to detect bad SCSI cables? Message-ID: <1993May5.201406.4631@sophia.smith.edu> Keywords: SCSI, cables, data corruption, 386bsd, adaptec 1542c Sender: root@sophia.smith.edu (Operator) Organization: Smith College Date: Wed, 5 May 1993 20:14:06 GMT Lines: 19 Hi, I just got an Adaptec 1542C and am having some problems getting everything going. At the moment I have a Quantum P105s and an Archive 2150s connected with proper termination. The software/OS is 386bsd. The problem is mangled data and trashed filesystems. I can copy stuff to the disk, but some things get garbled in transit; fsck finds gobs of errors. Tarring a directory tree to tape and then comparing shows lots of differences as well. Does this sound like symptoms of a bad SCSI cable? The cable worked fine in the last system it was in, but I've seen reports (here?) that the 1542C is rather particular about its cables. Or, does anybody know something else could manifest itself in a similar fashion? -- === jfieber@sophia.smith.edu ================================================ ======================================= Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===