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From: Joe Krantz <joe.krantz@symbios.com>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ultra SCSI drive (dors32160) reports SCSI-I!
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 10:13:35 -0700
Organization: Symbios Logic
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To: Craig Johnston <craig@gnofn.org>
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Craig Johnston wrote:
Try contacting Symbios Logic (formally NCR) at support@symbios.com

side issue, probably not related to your problem -
Why are you supplying term power from more than one place?

Are you using the SDMS V3.x or the SDMS V4.x BIOS?

	Joe

> 
> I've got an IBM DORS32160 drive hanging off an NCR 53c810 controller
> that negotiates for SCSI-I, 5mb/sec upon boot.  The drive should be
> negotiating for Fast SCSI-II.  It's an Apple OEM.
> 
> Anyone seen this or have any ideas why my drive is calling itself or
> being taken for a SCSI-I device?
> 
> Just for the record, the DORS is at ID 0 with termination enabled at
> the end of a chain also containing a Seagate Fast SCSI-II drive and
> an HP35480 DAT.  The DORS has no jumper for enabling term power.  The
> other 2 devices are supplying term power.  OS is FreeBSD 2.2-BETA.
> No other flakiness has been noted.  All devices are internal with
> termination supplied on one side by the NCR.  The DORS is the Ultra
> narrow model.
> 
> Thx,
> Craig