Hi all!
After years of happy performance, the dreaded SCSI bug finally seems to have
bitten me... :-(
The problem: I've got one machine (RHL5.2, 2.0.36) with a no-name,
SYMBIOS 810 base SCSI controller. Till now, that controller had two ancient
(1987 vintage - they're *monstrous* :-) ) Maxtor 600MB SCSI1 drives hanging
off externally, no drives internally. In addition, one internal EIDE drive.
That setup was working fine.
Over the weekend, I tried replacing those three drives with one IBM DCAS
2.1G drive, which has worked faithfully in another machine for quite some
time. However, as soon as I had that drive either in the bus (unterminated)
or at the end of the bus (terminated), I started having tons of SCSI error
messages, eventually resulting in file system corruption. I went through a
whole bunch of experiments with termination, moving the controller to
different PCI slots, etc.pp. to no avail. I could not get it working.
I then proceeded to put the old drives back and to put the IBM back into its
old machine (which has an ASUS PC-200(?) SYMBIOS 810 based controller, hence
the same chip as the other one - but RHL6.2 (2.2.19) on it) and guess what?
Everything was working perfectly again... ?!?!?
If anybody has a suggestion here, I'd be extremely grateful... :-}
TIA,
Thomas
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