PV-124T shoe shining on PE2950

[Jesús M. Navarro]

Hi, Stephen:

El Lunes, 5 de Marzo de 2007 19:15, Stephen Carr escribió:
> I had this same kind of with a PV-132T on a PE1850 that turned out to be
> a cable issue. Everything looked good (including the lights on the
> terminator) but things would go dreadfully slow (I'd get about 2-4MB/s
> instead of the 80-90 I expected). I noodled with the OS and the Adaptec
> card for a long while before turning to Dell support for help. They knew
> right away (it seemed) from what was happening that it was probably a
> hardware issue (cable or terminator). They sent me new of both, we did
> some testing and sure enough it was the cable. So, if you have a spare
> cable and terminator around, try that out.

Probably you are right.  Currently I've been able to make the tape to stream 
by reducing the SCSI bus speed from 360MB to 180MB and disabling some 
advanced settings, but just now the driver crashed at me with a segfault so 
probably it's a problem with either the terminator or the cable.  I'll try 
Dell support now.
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Jesús M. Navarro
Jefe de Sistemas y Soporte
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