Yes, that is what I thought too. If slowing the bus down causes the
problems to disappear, it's almost certainly a cabling or termination issue.
Cheers,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Leblanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:28 PM
Subject: RE: adaptec 2940u2w hangups
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:40 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: adaptec 2940u2w hangups
> >
> > You're problems occur only with RAID and the 2940U2W?
> >
> > I was told it should be a SCSI problem, not a RAID problem. So, I quit
> > trying to debug RAID issues and went on to SCSI
> > possibilities. Maybe the
> > guru was wrong?
> >
> > My latest attempt _may_ bear some fruit. I tried lowering the
> > speed from
> > 80Mb to 40Mb through the controller bios (thanks to C Polisher for the
> > suggestion). It's hard for me to catch the hangs, but so far this
> > morning, it _appears_ to have stopped (I've thought I found
> > the problem
> > before). Of course, it's a pretty rotten solution to have to
> > go to half
> > speed. Better not to have any RAID.
>
> WOAH! If cutting the speed down fixes things, try getting some new,
better
> cables, and a new terminator (and a new backplane if you're using one).
> That's almost certainly a SCSI hardware problem, and not something in the
> SCSI drivers or the RAID code. It may be that the problems "go away"
> without RAID because the SCSI bus isn't getting the same type of use as it
> would be with RAID.
> Greg
>
> [snip]
>
>
