Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-29 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 23:03:46 -0700, Jessica Blank composed: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > > How do I know if I got it right? I wish there was a "scsidiag" program > that would say "Your termination sucks, try this; your SCSI IDs have a > conflict, try this..." so do

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-29 Thread simonraven
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 00:51:09 -0500, Michael D. Crawford composed: > Jessica, > > However, it is my experience that Mac SCSI tends to work OK with no > termination at all (besides what is normally provided by the host bus > adapter). I really suspect your problem is not really termination, b

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-29 Thread simonraven
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 18:07:09 -0700, Chris Tillman composed: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Jessica Blank wrote: > > The poop: > > > > * First hard drive is a 1GB Quantum > > * Second hard drive is a 4GB something-or-other > > * Third hard drive is one of those big old "boat anchor

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-28 Thread Michel Lanners
On 28 Dec, this message from Jessica Blank echoed through cyberspace: >> > The thing that confuses me is thus: There are several termination options >> > for the drive I placed at the end of the SCSI chain (read the Web page I >> > referred to: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st15150n.h

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-28 Thread Jessica Blank
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Michel Lanners wrote: > On 27 Dec, this message from Jessica Blank echoed through cyberspace: > > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > > >> Could the original drive still be terminated after you have installed the > >> other > >> drives? It is probably wors

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-28 Thread Michel Lanners
On 27 Dec, this message from Jessica Blank echoed through cyberspace: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > >> Could the original drive still be terminated after you have installed the >> other >> drives? It is probably worse to have extra termination than to have none at >> all

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-27 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Jessica, Probably the best thing to do to ensure you don't have extra termination is to temporarily disconnect your CD drive entirely. The most likely place where the terminator would be to start with is on your CD drive. If you find this helps, then figure out how to disable the CD drive's

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-27 Thread Jessica Blank
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Could the original drive still be terminated after you have installed the > other > drives? It is probably worse to have extra termination than to have none at > all. Make sure you've got it right. The original drive was NOT installed at the

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-27 Thread Michael D. Crawford
Could the original drive still be terminated after you have installed the other drives? It is probably worse to have extra termination than to have none at all. Make sure you've got it right. I think on my 8500 the original configuration had the boot drive in the middle of the bus, the CD dr

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-27 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Jessica Blank wrote: > I am having some weird, weird SCSI I/O errors. I'm running Debian/PowerPC > on an "Old World" (beige) Mac-- namely, a Power Mac 7300/180 (the 7300s > were sold overseas, and are uncommon in the USA; they are roughly on par > with t

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-27 Thread Jessica Blank
The drives BOTH worked fine under Mac OS. I put 'em into the Linux box and suddenly both go.. klik klik klik klik klik klik klik On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Chris Tillman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Jessica Blank wrote: > > I am having some weird, weird SCSI I/O errors. I'm r

Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC

2002-12-27 Thread Chris Tillman
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Jessica Blank wrote: > I am having some weird, weird SCSI I/O errors. I'm running Debian/PowerPC > on an "Old World" (beige) Mac-- namely, a Power Mac 7300/180 (the 7300s > were sold overseas, and are uncommon in the USA; they are roughly on par > with t