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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 SCSI questions
- Date: 28 Jan 1996 16:42:04 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- Geoff Taylor <carinehs@vianet.net.au> wrote:
-
- >For the record, I may have found the source of the problem.
- >Prompted by recent postings about A3000 SCSI, I did another thorough check
- >from the board through the cables, terminating resistors etc. What I spotted
- >was that the terminating resistor packs on the final drive were oriented
- >differently.
-
- DING DING DING DING
-
- We have a winner!!!!
-
- > I am not sure of the internal arangement of the resistor packs,
- >but it occurs to me that they have to be the correct way round?
-
- Yes indeed. The resistor packs generally have a distinguishing mark of
- some kind on one end and not the other. That end contains pin 1, and
- should be set to pin 1 of its socket (usually indicated on the drive's
- board, often by a dot). Pin 1 is the "trunk" of the resistor pack's
- tree, with the other pins as it's "branches."
-
- If you had one reversed, different pins had different (usually incorrect)
- impedance. Depending on what the signal was, this could cause a lot of
- unreliable behavior.
-
-
- >b) I try the drives from a truly cold start (temperatures here are around
- >25-35 degC and the problem normally gets worse in winter)
-
- The temperature sensitivity may be from a different source, so if your
- drives operate perfectly during normal temps and then get cranky when it
- gets cold, don't be discouraged! You may be fighting two problems
- instead of one.
-
- Computers aren't perfect. Even they like the ambient to be something
- pleasant :-)
-
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-