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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: NCR825 controller with Fujitsu M2915-Q SCSI2 drive
Date: 18 Sep 1996 15:08:06 +0100
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Bob Willcox (bob@kenobi.pmr.com) wrote:
: Are you certain of this?  As far as I understand, the only thing
: special about the upper IDs is that they are lower in priority and
: *only* work on a wide SCSI bus with wide devices.  All of my wide
: disks work fine on the lower IDs (to which they are all set).

How are these jumpered ?  Do you have more than three ID jumpers ?  I have
a SCSI box that has three jumpers on the inside, and a switch that goes
up to 9 on the outside !!!!!!??!??!  Is it possible that the ID jumpers
can be shorted against eachother to give three jumpers w/ more than 8
values ?

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....