SCSI chains, quick question...

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Ah, thanks Ed.  so I will put the terminator back onto the CD writer,
> keep the one on the scanner, and enter the BIOS of the controller at
> boot, to disable the built-in terminator of the controller.
> 
> Okay, let's do that see what it does... 

Result : random behaviour, SCSI card once recognized both devices, but
once in Ubuntu, got a scarey "HAL failed to initialize" error when Gnome
started. I rebooted, error didn't reappear. Great, I thought, so
proceeded to test the system. Scanner worked, but the CD writer !
Looked at /var/log/messages, CD burner was detected properly, device
was created ('sg2'), then carried on initialising the system, then later
in the boot process, tried to talk to the CD writer, and the SCSI card
returned errors !
Tried rebooting, but the SCSI card would never detect both devices
anymore. Unplugged scanner, turned SCSI card's terminator back-on, and
oh magic, CD-writer is now working perfectly again !

Jeez.....

Then there is that constant noise the writer makes (fan), which drives
me mad. It makes me sick to think of the following, given that as a
single device it works perfectly, but I think I will have to replace it
with an IDE burner, so that the scanner stays alone on the SCSI bus. :-/
Will stick to Plextor, but will get an IDE one, I gather that they are
now as reliable as their SCSI ones, at least compared to the old one I
have (x12). Their cheapest ones cost only 35 Euros, and it burns 4 times
faster, hard to resist. 

Vince, at least I tried...