Eric on 9 Dec 2007 23:13:46 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] More SCSI Weirdness


Hey, I'm no SCSI expert but this has a certain "oddness" that might be explained
by improper SCSI bus termination.

Have you checked that?


Eric



jazzman@exdomain.org wrote:
> Ok, so I think I may have some more info on the weird drive behavior I was 
> seeing with my scsi array.
> 
> I tried the drive array on a second machine, different OS (Fedora 5) but 
> the machine behaves similarly (doesn't always detect ALL of the drives on 
> each boot... the scsi drives randomly pop in and out of existence on each 
> reboot). The only thing I did notice is that each machine has the SAME 
> scsi card (tekram DC395x) and that when the drives disappear on the FC5 
> machine I get the following error message flooding the logs:
> 
> dc395x: QUEUE_FULL for dev (0X-0)
> 
> where X is the scsi ID of the first "missing" drive.
> 
> Does anyone know anything good/bad about this card? It was cheap when I 
> bought it, but I'm hesitant to go buying new cards/cables and such without 
> knowing for sure. If this is a "could be anything" type of problem I have 
> a feeling the scsi case and it's drives end up on ebay befoer long...
> 
> any thoughts?
> 

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