fred smith wrote:
> Q: Does it matter which connector on the drive has the terminator and
> which has the cable? They don't seem to be marked.
If you peeked into the cabinet, here's what you'd see:
EXTCONNECTOR ------- CONNECTOR --------- EXTCONNECTOR
|
|
DRIVE
The terminator must be the last thing on the SCSI chain. As you can see from
the above, if you hook the terminator on the left and the computer cable from
the right, the terminator is the last thing on the SCSI chain. If you hook the
terminator on the right, and the computer cable on the left, the terminator is
STILL the last thing on the SCSI chain.
Short answer: No, it doesn't matter.
> I'm running RH 5.2, 2.0.36 kernel.
>
> When I boot up the controller DOES NOT report the existence of the
> drive. I'm thinking this is a bad sign, am I right?
A bad sign, yes. Make sure that the tape drive is not at the same SCSI address
as something else on your SCSI chain, take the cabinet cover off and make sure
that the SCSI connector has not somehow jiggled out of the tape drive, check
the DIP switches or jumpers to make sure that you don't have something weird
enabled (or disabled), and all the other usual stuff you do when debugging.
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