[Info-vax] smartarray 5300 question

[Hans Vlems]

On 21 feb, 00:45, MG <marcog... at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 20-feb-2013 21:39, Hans Vlems wrote:
>
> > It proves that either the SCSI converter is dead, or the other cable
> > is dead or both.
>
> What does your setup (roughly) look like, SCSI ID- and termination-
> wise?  In my experience, the majority of my SCSI and related issues
> have been with regard to termination, even when I thought I 'nailed
> it', I occasionally managed to overlook or miss something.  Also,
> what kind of converters are you using?
>
>   - MG

The SCSI converter is a unit from McPriceBreakers, who are no longer
active on eBay.
Their units had an option to handle the unused datalines.
I'm not sure termination is the problem in this example:I connected a
(blue) BS35x cabinet that works fine
with a KZPCM controller to the SA5300 controller and no drives were
detected. And I'm
sure that that cabinet is configured correctly.
This evening I'll remove the KZPAC controller, put two new disks in
the AS800 internal
drive cage and install VMS 8.4 on a SCSI disk connected to its built-
in LSI controller.
Yesterday evening the KZPAC was disconnected from the internal drive
bay and kept
complaining about that.
I tried various disks with the SA5300, one at the time. Each disk was
set to SCSI id 0.
Only when that disk was in the internal drive bay of the AS800 did it
become visible to
the SA5300 controller. For the other disks (connected with a flat
cable and the SCSI
converter) that indicates either a bad cable, bad converter or
termination problem.
In this particular test termination may have been a prblem though.
Hans