Messages in this thread |  | | From | Antonio Miguel Trindade <> | Subject | Re: aic7xxx errors | Date | Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:27:47 +0100 |
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Em Quarta 05 Setembro 2001 10:04, Frank Schneider escreveu: > Olaf Zaplinski schrieb: > > I had this effect too here (RH7.1, Kernel 2.4.3), but i put it on a > wrong termination of the LVD Bus...be careful if you have LVD-Drives > with a "Termination"-Jumper...(e.g. IBM DGHS18V)...this Termination is > only usable if you use the drive as Single Ended SCSI-UW, *not* if you > use the drive i a true LVD-environment ! > > I learnt this the hard way, because i used this "Termination"-jumper and > the system bootet without problems and ran about 2 weeks...then the > above errors occured, followed by system crashes....after reading the > original ibm-docs, and not the oem-reseller-crap, the reason was clear. >
According to IBM specs, _no LVD drive has terminators built-in_... I have several servers with LVD drives (all IBM) and none of them has terminators, even in SE mode. You always have to use an external terminator...
> > Solong.. > Frank.
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