Symbios SCSI issues
John Abreau
jabr at abreau.net
Sat Nov 16 19:13:02 EST 2002
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Ben Boulanger <ben at blackavar.com> writes:
> Hey all,
> I've got a Symbios 22802 card that I'm having some issues with. I'm
> trying to swap it into a box in place of an adaptec 2940UW. The docs on
> the symbios card say that it handles termination by autosensing the need
> for it, but I can't seem to get it to work. I don't have a terminator
> handy, and so I haven't tried that, but my drives work fine on the 2940
> which I know handles the termination but not at all with the Symbios.
>
> Anyone have any experience with this?
This is probably not relevant, but when I was installing Redhat 8.0
recently, on a old Compaq Proliant 1850R, it loaded a Symbios SCSI driver
during the install, and the machine would consistently freeze up right
after autosensing the monitor. Ultimately I found a report on google
that disabling the built-in ethernet port in the BIOS would work around
the problem. I did that and popped in a Linksys ethernet card, and the
install ran fine after that.
Presumably there was some sort of resource conflict. You might try
looking for a similar conflict on your system.
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