Re: IBM Ultrastar U2W problems
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 illusion@webzone.net wrote:
> One thing you may want to check is the cable. That's one of the biggest
> trouble-makers when dealing with SCSI problems, especially in Linux,
> from what I've noticed. Low quality or older cables are notorious for
> giving headaches, especially with high-speed SCSI.
That's for sure. Make sure that your setup complies with the SCSI specs.
Try a different cable, make sure you've got good termination, and so
forth.
> Another thing I
> would recommend is to play with the driver settings for the SCSI
> controller.
A good point. Try disabling options, one by one, and see if there's a
particular option that gives you problems.
I'm not very familiar with the 8xx driver, but from what
> I've understood (this may have changed with the 2.2 series of kernels,
> or I could be completely wrong to begin with), the 8xx driver is a BSD
> derived driver, where the 7xx is wholly Linux. So there's another
> potential avenue to tread across.
The 8xx driver is derived from a BSD driver, but it's quite solid and is
in fact the recommended driver for NCR 53c8xx chips. The older driver is
really only kept around to support 7xx cards.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
"Every question has a simple, easy-to-understand wrong answer."
-H. L. Mencken
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