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Subject: Re: Help! - "parity error during data-in phase" when using CD-R drv
In-Reply-To: <19990526053742.R95827@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "May 26, 1999  5:37:43 am"
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Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:41:37 +0200 (CEST)
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As Greg Lehey wrote ...
> On Tuesday, 25 May 1999 at 11:03:15 -0700, Doug White wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 May 1999, Donald Burr wrote:
> >

> >> Please note that ALL OF MY OTHER SCSI PERIPHERALS ARE WORKING FINE.
> >
> > Hm, this implies that the CDR is busted.  My guess is that it's the
> > cable.
> 
> If it were the cable, the other devices wouldn't work either.  And it
> wouldn't explain why this happened suddenly.

No true. I have cables to prove it wrong. 

> > Did you check it again?
> 
> Again, if it was a simple termination problem, the others wouldn't
> work either.  

This is not termination AFAI can see.

> >> It seems to me, then, that I somehow managed to damage the drive while
> >> moving it between cases.  But I thought I had better post this anyway, in
> >> case someone else out there has any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong, or
> >> how I might go about fixing this.
> >
> > Cable on upside down?
> 
> That would stop everything from working.

Yes. 

> couple of drives like that, and you (Donald) have a lot of stuff on
> the chain.  Could you try removing as much as possible (at least the
> DDS drive and the scanner, and any disks you can get by without for a
> test), and see if you can get it to work then.

Good idea. Loose all external devices (scanner). External and internal
devices on the same bus are a Bad Idea(tm) anyway.

Wilko

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