I have a BA356 shelf with a DS-BA35X-FB personality
module. The personality
module has two high density connectors on it, I think they are 68-pin. The
pins are too small for me to be able to count them reliably, but the cable
has a 68-pin SCSI Wide connector on the other end. The second connector on
the personality module is not connected to anything, I do not have a
terminator for it and I am unsure if I need one. I have connected this to my
433au which has a Qlogic QLA1040 SCSI adapter in it. I have been unable to
locate any documentation for either the personality module or the SCSI
adapter.
I am having problems getting the SRM to recognise the disks in the shelf.
Sometimes it will see no devices at all, not even the CD-ROM connected to
the internal SCSI cable. Other times it will see a ton of disks as shown in
this partial extract from the console:
>> sh dev
>>
dka0.0.0.1009.0 DKA0
dka100.1.0.1009.0 DKA100
dka101.1.0.1009.0 DKA101
dka103.1.0.1009.0 DKA103
dka105.1.0.1009.0 DKA105
dka107.1.0.1009.0 DKA107
dka1100.11.0.1009.0 DKA1100
dka1102.11.0.1009.0 DKA1102
Just now I tried with one SBB in slot 0 and I got this:
>> sh dev
>>
dka400.4.0.1009.0 DKA400 MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-508
XS03
dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0
ewa0.0.0.3.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-75-BE-63
pka0.7.0.1009.0 PKA0 SCSI Bus ID 7 5.57
pqa0.0.0.4.0 PQA0 PCI EIDE
pqb0.0.1.4.0 PQB0 PCI EIDE
When I added a second SBB in slot 1 then I got this:
>> sh dev
>>
waiting for pka0.7.0.1009.0 to poll...
waiting for pka0.7.0.1009.0 to poll...
waiting for pka0.7.0.1009.0 to poll...
dva0.0.0.0.1 DVA0
ewa0.0.0.3.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-75-BE-63
pka0.7.0.1009.0 PKA0 SCSI Bus ID 7 5.57
pqa0.0.0.4.0 PQA0 PCI EIDE
pqb0.0.1.4.0 PQB0 PCI EIDE
>>
I am not quite sure what
is going on, what the jumpers on the personality
module do, whether I need to insert a terminator on the second personality
module connector, or whether there are some jumpers on the QLA1040 adapter
that need to be set, or is there something else I need to do.
Anyone have any clues?
Thanks
Rob
Rob, I run a BA356 from my VAX via a personality module with an HD 50
SCSI connector. I don't terminate the pass through connector.
I have a 16 bit personality module which has 68 pin HD connectors but
have never tried connecting it up.
Mark.