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Re: [PLUG] More SCSI Weirdness
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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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# Eric Lucas
#
# "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth
# And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings...
# -- John Gillespie Magee Jr
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