Using an adaptec AH2940 (I think) scsi controller and a seperate box/tower that holds 5 CD-Rom drives, I am getting some weird errors while trying to read the CDs.
Each CD drive has a green LED and an amber LED on them. After a reboot of the CD tower and the server, the two drives with CD's have their green lights turn on and the other three drives without CDs in them stay orange. A few minutes in, all of the drives turn orange, and during a file copy from CD rom to hard drive, the transfer of files times out. A few seconds later, the drives with CDs in them turn back to green and stay that way for a few minutes and, in unison, all the drives turn back orange.
I dont know when this problem started, but things used to work fine not long ago, early as last week. Someone rebooted the server last Friday, and I don't know if that had anything to do with it.
On the back of the CD tower, the scsi cable is plugged in. Below that, another scsi connecter has nothing plugged into it. If my knowledge of scsi is right, shouldn't there also be a scsi terminator plugged into that? Or does the scsi tower provide it's own termination?
Please help, growing frustrated in Michigan.
Each CD drive has a green LED and an amber LED on them. After a reboot of the CD tower and the server, the two drives with CD's have their green lights turn on and the other three drives without CDs in them stay orange. A few minutes in, all of the drives turn orange, and during a file copy from CD rom to hard drive, the transfer of files times out. A few seconds later, the drives with CDs in them turn back to green and stay that way for a few minutes and, in unison, all the drives turn back orange.
I dont know when this problem started, but things used to work fine not long ago, early as last week. Someone rebooted the server last Friday, and I don't know if that had anything to do with it.
On the back of the CD tower, the scsi cable is plugged in. Below that, another scsi connecter has nothing plugged into it. If my knowledge of scsi is right, shouldn't there also be a scsi terminator plugged into that? Or does the scsi tower provide it's own termination?
Please help, growing frustrated in Michigan.
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