On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, James D. Freels wrote: > The tape drive is within the VXA-2 Packet-Loader 1U rack mount. It is > connected via an external > scsi cable that came with the drive. the unit also came with it's own > terminator which is also plugged into the > packet loader. The packet-loader is the only device connected to the > scsi card externaly. > > Inside, the scsi card has both a scsi-1 and scsi-2 connector. The
You mean, a narrow and a wide connector? > scsi-1 connector has a single device > connected (the CD-Rom). The scsi-2 connector has the rest of the > devices connected on a single cable > (3 hard drives, 1 VXA-1 Exabyte tape drive). It is a fairly long cable, > with about 8 inches of cable separating each > device. The last device on the cable is the VXA-1 tape drive followed > by a termination on the cable itself. So the cabling is your problem: you should use maximum 2 of the 3 connectors on a SCSI card, since it's supposed to be a single long chain without branches. It's the same on mine (I have one with internal narrow and wide, and external wide connectors). Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds