On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:16:24PM -0400, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > I am successfully using one of those cards on my > fossil server. It emits that message every time > it boots (the last time it booted the values were > 00 and 00; I can't claim they are every time). > > If I can be of use in debugging, let me know... > I should have time starting Wednesday. > > Have you checked that your SCSI bus is terminated?
As this system has always been running Debian GNU/Linux, I would say yes. Nevertheless, I also checked the user manual of the card and found out that I should actually use the special twisted pair ribbon cable with a SCSI terminator (LVD) to use Ultra2 SCSI (my disks are U2W) instead of the flat cable (SE) which is only for Ultra/Wide SCSI. I didn't know there was a difference between the 2 cables and used the flat cable (having 3 connectors) as the machine only has 2 SCSI disks anyway (so all 3 connectors would be used). The ribbon cable would have connectors left over: it has 6 connectors: 1 for the controller, 1 for an LVD terminator and 4 for disks. I always thought that the 2 unused connectors would leave the SCSI bus open. After switching the cables (not the connector), the Linux on the harddisk worked as before (with no noticable difference but I didn't investigate throughput or so any further). The Plan 9 CD didn't get any further however. > Dave Eckhardt -- Frank Lenaerts ---------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
