From: root@umibox.hanse.de Subject: Re: Q about Seagate SCSI controller ST02 Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:30:20 GMT
drew@juliet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
>In article <1992Nov19.161336.15475@eua.ericsson.se> tmpcms@eua.ericsson.se (Carl Michael Skoog) writes:
>>
>>I recently bought a used Seagate ST02 SCSI Host (Bios Revision 3.2).
>>During POST it first prints out something like "Seagate ST02 bios 3.2"
>>, and then the cryptic message "SCSI Adaptor Failure" comes up.
>>
>>Does this indicate a hardware failure, or does it simply indicate that i have
>Yes.
No!!!!!!!
It really just indicates you should attach disks to a host, otherwise the
host's lines won't be terminated and the initialization (sp) sequence fails
miserably. No need to worry!
I've experienced this myself with my st-02 even before I put in the Prom
turned 180 degrees :-( (still works!)
Ciao,
Bernd
P.S.: Newspak is wonderful!