On Saturday 26 March 2005 04:31 am, Anders Norrbring wrote: <snip>
I don't know.. Termination seems to be "odd" in this case since it's an old Compaq Proliant rack case with original hard disks in it. They're not known to be problematic. Even if they're old and slow.. :)
Also, when I go to the controller's disk utility to verify media and low-level format the drives they're reported as 8.4GB, which is correct. But when I go to "Create Array", they're shown as 4GB disks. I'm really confused. The other drives in the rack are 18.2GB drives and they're reported correctly all the way.
Hi Anders! When I was in the RISC/*nix SCSI storage products market, it wasn't uncommon for our customers to get "bit" on occassion by subtle variations in firmware, meaning the OEM had "optimized" the device or controller (sometimes both) that they were selling. Other common problem areas: - mixing single-ended and differentially driven devices (forgetting to set jumpers, when available.) - using passive terminators when active were required and active when forced were required - incompatible, marginal and even new defective cables - inadvertent double-terminations (using a terminator on a last device jumpered to auto-sense and self-terminate) - mixing wide (16 bit) devices with narrow (8 bit) devices and controllers Just thought I'd share these observations with you in hopes they might help you develop a new avenue of inquiry. regards, - Carl -- _______________________________________________________________________ C. E. Hartung Business Development & Support Services http://www.cehartung.com/ carlh@cehartung.com Dover Foxcroft, Maine, USA Public Keys 68396713 & F8207216 Reg. Linux User #350527 http://counter.li.org/ ----->>>>>http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/supportlinuxbios.html <<<<<-----