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From:Nuno Berneaud
Date:14 Jun 2001 at 03:21:30
Subject:Re: Blizzard SCSI problem

Hello Stephen

On 13-Jun-01, you wrote:

>SW> I need technical advice on a very annoying problem with my Blizzard's SCSI
>SW> controller. When I use CD's in my Yamaha CD-RW I sometimes get a requester
>SW> saying some sort of problem ("Unexpected disconnect") ocurred,with 2
>SW> options: "Serial" and "OK",I think.
>SW
>SW Sounds like an error with your SCSI controller. The serial option is used in
>SW debugging where you can attach a dumb terminal to your serial port and get
>SW the error output. You can capture this by using an app like Sushi or
>SW Sushimi. However, given that phase5 are defunct, I doubt this bug will get
>SW fixed. Make sure you are using the CDR_SCSI3_ATAPI.driver in MakeCD.

I explained myself wrong. MakeCD works fine, it's in normal read operation that
the problems occur.

>SW> It doesn't happen everytime, so I can't be more specific about the
>SW> requesters.Have to wait for it to happen again. I have my CD unit in a
>SW> tower,not terminated.That is done by my Zip drive, which is the last unit
>SW> on the chain.
>SW
>SW IIRC, Zip drives are not the best way of terminating a SCSI bus. This
>SW probably is not helping your situation.

I'll try to fix that, but it's the last unit and can't see how to change the
situation. It's my only external drive, all other stuff is in the tower.

Bye,

Nuno

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