Subject: Re: scsi question with sparcstation.
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/24/2006 01:08:30
> SCA drives are un-terminated, the termination is provided by the SCSI
> backplane,
Well, depending on the enclosure.
> the ID is provided by the position on the SCSI bus.
This is not true - or at the very least, is not always true. I have
one machine with two SCA drive bays; one is ID 1, the other ID 3, in
each case regardless of what other IDs may be present on the back-panel
connector or whether the other slot is populated.
As I understand it, the ID is provided by some of the pins on the SCA
connector; if this happens to match order on the SCSI bus that is more
or less coincidental.
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