Re: WD 93c33 trouble

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Hello,

On Feb 18, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:36:51PM -0500, J. Scott Kasten wrote:
>>
>>
>
>> I once bought an HP Netserver drive for use in a Sun workstation.   
>> This
>> crazy drive worked fine by itself, but refused to play well with  
>> anything
>> else.  Addition of anything caused everything on the chain to fail  
>> device
>> probes.  After an agonizing process of elimination, I discovered  
>> that this
>> crazy drive actually responded to EVERY SCSI ID, regardless of jumper
>> setting, cabling, etc.  I finally pulled out the docs that came  
>> with the
>> drive and apparently, it was made to do this, and was intended for  
>> some
>> sort of single ended arrangement.
>
> I was more thinking about a external ID switch box - like the ones
> on the back of drive cases connected upside-down. Creates interesting
> combinations.  But Michael explicitely said "Nay".

It's jumpered to ID1, ARCS reports it there. If I change it to ID2 and  
leave it alone ARCS reports it as ID2 as does NetBSD. It's some other  
craziness.

have fun
Michael

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