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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:35:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: scsi error.
To: jbradford@dial.pipex.com, "Cress, Andrew R" <andrew.r.cress@intel.com>
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Problem solved. I didn't enable term power on the last drive in my SCSI chain.
Errors gone now. Thanks.


-Alex

--- jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
> > You apparently have a Data Parity Error on your SCSI bus.  Probably your
> > external SCSI drive has a cable or terminator problem.  You can confirm this
> > by disconnecting the external SCSI cable to see if the other drives come up
> > ok.  
> > You may be missing some termination, either via an external terminator or by
> > turning on the drive's TERMPWR jumper on the external drive (depending on
> > the type of disk cabinet you have).  Or, the external SCSI cable may be
> > faulty (usually bent pins).
> 
> Also, it could be that you are using a cable designed for a Mac - those cables often don't have
> all of the GND lines individually connected, and can cause seemingly random problems.
> 
> John

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