🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <Bt2xIF.Ep3@world.std.com> I wrote:
>New AST 486 eisa, Adaptac 1744, 510 Meg Connor, Archive 2525S.

>Installation went fine.  Same problem with tape, though.  Then,
>suddenly, screenfulls of "Can't read block " off of dev 1,40.
>
>So, I was going to look at replacing the Adaptec, but now I'm not sure.
>

Boy, did I screw up!

First, this wasn't a 1744, it was a 1740.  But that was just a typo
and not at all the problem.

The problem was that diagnostics would see 8 drives attached and the
tape did not work at all.

As I said in my post, the only time I've ever seen that is when the
drive is at ID 7.  My post went on to state  "This drive assuredly is
NOT at ID 7".

Well, what's required here is some creative re-definition of "assuredly NOT".

Because it was, and I even looked at the jumpers (yep, all 3 of them) and
somehow just did not see it.  Or somehow figured that all closed MUST mean
0 because who would  ship a drive ID'd at  7? (*Conner would-and does)

As I had said to the client as I lay on my back, reaching up into the
machine to see if cables were loose:  "There's something really screwy
here, because this drive acts like it's ID 7"

Did I listen to myself?  No.  Am I a total idiot?  Maybe.


		Tony


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