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- From: Kyle Miller <millerka@cf.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: Help with GVP A4008 +ZIP +CDROM
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- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:06:19 GMT
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- arjo@grafix.xs4all.nl (Arjo Rozendaal) wrote:
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- > KM> A few days ago I bought an AIWA ACD-300 SCSI external CD-ROM drive and
- > KM> daisy chained it with the Zip. Now what happens is every now and
- > KM> again, only when I am reading/writing from/to the Zip drive and
- > KM> accessing the CD at the same time, occasionally I get the message
- > KM> "Unexpected status $40/$00 unit X", where X is whatever unit the CD-ROM
- > KM> Drive is (I've tried it on a few). Then, the system usually crashes,
- > KM> or at the very least the Zip Drive locks up and I have to reboot.
- >
- >Did you change the termination?
- >
- >See you,
- >Arjo.
- >-- Via Xenolink 1.981, XenolinkUUCP 1.1
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- Yes, I tried everything, but I've sorted it out now. I had to use gvpscsictrl and tell
- it to turn off the disconnect function of the Zip Drive, everything works fine now.
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