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Re: [PLUG] More SCSI Weirdness
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Both the card and case claim auto termination, but I also have a
terminator (marked active terminator... is there a "passive" kind?) that
I've tried... same behavior...
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Eric wrote:
> 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?
>
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> Eric
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> 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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