From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Sep 24 23:30:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06117 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06112 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA29172; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:59:56 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199809250628.AAA14626@pluto.plutotech.com> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:59:55 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Subject: Re: opinions on possible bad disk? Cc: Ted Buswell , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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