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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Repeated UNIT ATTENTION, what is it, is this serious?
To: rschof@mccomm.nl (Rob Schofield)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:45:37 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199704170856.KAA10442@mccomm.nl> from "Rob Schofield" at Apr 17, 97 10:55:57 am
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Rob Schofield wrote:
> 
> > The problem could be anything from a parity error to overlapping SCSI IDs
> > to bad termination to soft errors on the disk or tape.
> 
> - or that old chestnut, a power supply that can't deal with the peak
> and static current requirements of so many disks/tape drives/etc. in
> one box. There was speak of sperating the number of drives onto two

	scsi bus length?   how long was the chain including inside the
	cabinets, etc.
jmb