Summary: DEC2000 model 300 system SCSI bus problem

From: <jli_at_wells.printrak.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 95 08:48:00 -0700

Hello,

My original messages was:

> I have one of those DEC2000/300 machine that is running OSF1 3.2. There are
> two internal drives in the machine and they work great. On the same bus, I
> attached an external drive. I am able to see the drive and create UFS and
> mount it. I have no problem of copying some files to it. The problem happens
> when I try to copy many files to it. For example, untaring some files.
>
> The drive hangs when heavy IO takes place on the drive. I attached the same
> drive on another machine and it works fine. Additionally, I replaced the SCSI
> card and same problem occures on the second card.
>
> Does any one experienced this problem? Any suggestions?


Thanks to many people for the suggestions. The problem was the cable I was
using. It's too long. Instead of a 5 feet cable, I used a 2 feet cable.
Everything works great.

Again, many thanks to the folks out there.

John

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Received on Tue Sep 05 1995 - 20:14:58 NZST

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