24 Oct
2001
24 Oct
'01
9:16 a.m.
Among all the fanning and blowing and spinning, the
disk
seek can be pretty faint. No, I did not hear the disk
seeking and it all went suspiciously quick. I may
My recollection of RA9x drives is that when
you transition them to RUN (either by hitting
the button or as a result of host action) they
is a clear "thunk".
not have proper connection between KDB50 and disk. The
disk shows both ports A and B enabled, and I'm connected
only to A. Is there any ordering of the 4 ports on the
KDB50 bulkhead that I need to know to get it right?
The order of the 4 KDB50 connections is
essentially meaningless. It certainly does not
determine device naming or whatever.
The A/B port stuff also matters very little.
If your KDB50 is connected to port A, then
port A needs to be enabled and B is
irrelevant. Or vice versa.
Antonio
24 Oct
24 Oct
11:22 a.m.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
Something I remember on RA81s is that you have to go from
controller --> cable --> bulkhead connector --> cable --> disk
if you go directly from controller to disk, you end up with pins swapped
and things dont work (but nothing hurt)
Peter Wallace
Among all the fanning and blowing and spinning,
the disk
seek can be pretty faint. No, I did not hear the disk
seeking and it all went suspiciously quick. I may
My recollection of RA9x drives is that when
you transition them to RUN (either by hitting
the button or as a result of host action) they
is a clear "thunk".
not have proper connection between KDB50 and disk.
The
disk shows both ports A and B enabled, and I'm connected
only to A. Is there any ordering of the 4 ports on the
KDB50 bulkhead that I need to know to get it right?
The order of the 4 KDB50 connections is
essentially meaningless. It certainly does not
determine device naming or whatever.
The A/B port stuff also matters very little.
If your KDB50 is connected to port A, then
port A needs to be enabled and B is
irrelevant. Or vice versa.
Antonio
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