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List:       sparc-redhat
Subject:    Re: RedHat 6.1 on an IPX
From:       jdickins () usit ! net
Date:       1999-12-29 1:33:36
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Hi,

I'm not sure what you mean by "double terminating" the bus...I know that the IPX
has terminating resistors on its motherboard. That terminates one side of the scsi
chain. What I'm not sure of is how is the external scsi device and the internal
hard drive are terminated WHEN you use both. Seeing that the internal chain is
always terminated...like this

external termintor (plugged into) <--> cd-rom <--> internal term <--> hard drive
termintor

what type of termination did you give the hard drive? there are several options.

many thanks,
jim


you wrote:

>Well, after many hours of fooling around with this problem, I finally think
>I found my problem, and maybe just maybe everyone else's problem with
>RedHat 6.1 on an IPX. Well I noticed that my system which was running
>RedHat 6.0 fine was reporting SCSI bus reset errors in the
>/var/log/messages file. Then I noticed (after opening the external drive I
>have) that every time the RedHat 6.1 install crashed it was due to a SCSI
>reset. So I check the termination on the drive itself and found that I was
>double terminating the bus. After fixing this problem by removing a jumper
>from the drive, the install completed just fine. I did do a text install, I
>never tried the standard windowed install.
>
>This worked for me, so if you are having trouble with the 6.1 install,
>check you termination.
>
>Hugo Curbelo
>hc@softwarerx.com
>
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