Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

From: paradox3 (paradox3@maine.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 00:02:35 EST


Here is the output from dmesg. How do I tell if it is improperly terminated?

Thanks, Para-dox (paradox3@maine.rr.com)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Brown" <flight666@hotmail.com>
To: <paradox3@maine.rr.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: Poor SCSI drive performance on SMP machine, 2.2.16

> Your problem appears to be improper SCSI termination.
>
> You need to either
> 1) make sure your SCSI drive has termination enabled
> or
> 2) move your SCSI drive to the middle connector and put a terminator on
> the last connector
>
> Check your syslog and post to l-k the part where it detects your drives.
> I'll bet the adapter is throttling back quite dramatically in the presence
> of improper termination.
>
> --
> Michael Brown
>
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