Subject: Re: scsi cable problems?
To: Nick <nmanisca@vt.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/04/2000 20:33:44
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:50:55PM -0400, Nick wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> An update... If I unplug the cdrom drive from the scsi bus, the entire
> set up seems to be stable (I just did a few builds of kernels while doing
> repeated 'find /' and didn't have any problems.  Could the problem be
> that the converter that goes from 68 pin to 50 pin (to allow the cdrom
> drive to plug into a 68 pin ribbon) needs to terminate the upper eight
> bits?  Maybe it is only terminating 8 bits total instead of all 16?

Possible. Another issue could be the lengh of the whole SCSI bus
(just ran into this today).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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