Installing an old Iomega Jaz 2 GB on Enterprise WS4

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 09:36 -0500, Sidney Abrahams wrote:
> I have an Adaptec SCSI 2960 adapter connected to a Seagate 36 Gb and I
> connected the Jaz on the old 50 pin connector, terminated the cable
> and booted up. DMESG | more, shows me the Jaz on ID 4 but it reports
> that the device refuses synchronous communication and is using
> asynchronous. When I put in a disc in the Jaz it reports 
> 
> “spinning up disc” then I get a card dump
> 
> (scsi0:A:4:0) : Device is disconnected, re-queing SCB
> 
> Recovery Code Sleeping
> 
> (scsi0:A:4:0) Abort Message sent
> 
> (scsi0:A:4:0): Abort completed
> 
>  
> 
> Lots of lines like
> 
> XX SCB_CONTROL[0x0] SCB_SCSIID[0xff] SCB_LUN[0xff] SCB_TAG[0xff] with
> XX ending in 31
> 
> Kernel Free SCB List : 6 0 1 7 5 4
> 
> Untagged Q(4):6
> 
> DevQ(0:0:0): 0 waiting
> 
> DevQ(0:4:0): 0 waiting
> 
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Dump Card State Ends
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> How can I get the Jaz to work?

It "just does" for me on an Adaptec 2942.  It smells like an ID conflict
or a bad terminator to me.  You may have to turn off the autotermination
in the Adaptec's BIOS.

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