On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In your email to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: > > > > > > It's down to 3.3... Any other settings to jack with?? > > > > Make sure you have the shortest cable possible, and good termination. > > Other than that, try another scsi cable. > > > > Tim > > > Thanks to all who have replied, but nothing has helped. I've got > a 4 inch cable hooked up between the drive and the card now, but that > didn't do it. The drive is a SCSI-III so I believe its a self-terminating > device, but I don't know... Are there any terminators that would go on > the end of a 50 pin ribbon? > Anyway, I don't think the cabling is a problem. I ran a media > verify from the onboard bios and it went through the whole drive with > no problems, except for the usual media defects. I also did a dma transfer > test from the bios and it came up clean. > Are there any kernels that are known to work _for_sure_ with an > AHA-1542CF?? Maybe that's my problem... >
I've been using the standard aha1542 driver as a module with 2.0.14 with no problems, but I had a lot of problems initially. My problem was termination and the symptoms sound similar to yours. My one external device is a ZIP drive. If your hard drive has resisters installed (usually near the ribbon connector area on the component side of a SCSI drive, then its got internal terminators, but they may not be enabled, or termination power to the BUS may not be set properly. You really need to get some decent documentation for the drive. I hope the SCSI driver developers or kernel developers can implement a way for things like this to have less of an impact, 1.2 never complained (neither did DOS, etc.). Apparently the driver is only able to sense what's going on on the bus when its loaded, so it can't gracefully fail to load when such a problem occurs. I'd rather see it able to run despite such a problem :-) Anyway, good luck. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- ******************************************************************************* Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *******************************************************************************
