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Re: DS20 confusion



On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:57:18PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> [...]
> First thing is SCSI confusion. They have an "internal" StorageWorks shelf,
> connected apparently via scsi over a small repeater. The cable from the 
> repeater was not connected. The connector is a bit strange, but the mainboard
> has two matching jacks labeled SCSI bus A and SCSI bus B. So I connected it
> to scsi a, but it does not show up anywhere. The schematics on the downside
> of the top cover seems to imply that it should run to some pci card - which
> I don't have.

from memory, the on-board chip is an adaptec which is not driven by SRM. 
You need an LSI-based SCSI adapter.
I'm not sure the on-board adaptec is activated at all when the SRM is used,
from memory I think NetBSD didn't see it either.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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