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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI card Date: 14 Sep 1996 13:03:22 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <51e6ua$ik@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960903215141.13825B-100000@bmec.hscbklyn.edu> <MICHAELV.96Sep9090827@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: : In article <50muo4$a1@anorak.coverform.lan> brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: : David Zakai (zakaid99@hscbklyn.edu) wrote: : : 1. Are there still significant incompatibilities when using : : a PCI-based card (like Adaptec AHA-2940 or AHA-2920) instead : : of ISA-based cards like Adaptec AVA-1522B ? : I've just put my SCSI disks on a 2940W (instead of a 1542B). I'm : getting occasional problems w/ the disks - nothing that a SCSI reset : doesn't cure (the OS sends this after a bit of "disk timed out" : complaining). I suspect that I'm just trying to drive the disks too : fast, so I can't really complain about the OS itself. : Doubtful, unless you have _really old_ drives. It sounds more like : you have marginal cabling and/or termination. This looks to be true ! I've removed the internal terminating drive and replaced it w/ a new internal terminating drive, and I've had no further disk problems. Said drive had also run out of bad sector mapping space. I think the hw error that resulted was causing the reset, and either bad termination or the reset caused the other drives to time out. Now, the only thing that doesn't work is my DAT..... I'll look at that at the end of the month (next backup). -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....