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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 1995 20:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Cc:        paul@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: scsi problem solved
Message-ID:  <199507190331.UAA06086@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507190125.VAA00380@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jul 18, 95 09:25:46 pm

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> 
> Paul Richards writes:
> 
> > 
> > Well, it didn't. Same problem, hung bus.
> > 
> > It's working fine with just the disk and tape though, it's running a 
> > backup as I do this.
> 
> Paul, this is really starting to smell like cables.

I see your getting that same odor.  :-) :-)

> It is time
> to go to the known SCSI-II cables and active termination.  Didn't you
> say you weren't sure they were all SCSI-II?

One more idea just came to mind that I have seen in the past.  Do
there happen to be any HD-50 type connectors in this chain (an HD-50
is the 0.5" pin spacing high density scsi-ii connector, not the
Centronics-50 on the 1542)?  If so please look at the male HD-50
connectors for signs of bent pins.  If one of the ground pins is
bent or broken off it smells just like a cable problem and can be
very hard to track down.  (Well, unless your like me and have scsi-ii
cables laying all over and just do a wholesale swap to a known good
set when that odor starts to get even the slightest bit noticable :-))


-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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