Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:59:55 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: Ted Buswell <tbuswell@mediaone.net>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: opinions on possible bad disk? Message-ID: <XFMail.980925155955.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199809250628.AAA14626@pluto.plutotech.com>
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On 25-Sep-98 Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >The BIOS is set to auto-terminate, which I was told was the cause, and to > >turn auto terminate off (then again, it actually works as it stands.. :) > I don't know why MB manufacturers insist on allowing the user to enable > auto-term when they didn't put auto-term logic on the MB. Anyway, > you are currently playing a very dangerous game by leaving auto-term > enabled. The bus is not properly terminated and will someday start > showing errors. OK.. Thanks, I did not realise this was the case :( Thanks again for the warning. *Daniel gets his large axe out and starts sharpening some more --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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