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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 SCSI
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 18:55:43 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block) wrote:
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- >* My position is that the A3000 can and should be treated as a standard SCSI
- >device for termination.
-
- Generally, I hold nothing but 100% agreement with you on that.
-
- >* Your position is that certain revisions of the A3000 require non-spec
- >termination due to design flaws.
-
- Yes.
-
- >The easy way to resolve this would be to post a copy of the relevant
- >portion of the tech documents you describe, or alternately, track down one
- >of the ex-C= engineers (Randell Jessup?) who located or knew about the
- >A3000 SCSI design flaws. Given that so many people have trouble with the
- >A3000 SCSI, it would certainly help, and I would not be unduly upset about
- >being proved wrong.
-
- Yes, it's time I either put up or shut up on this issue. I will endeavor
- to locate this document (not as easy as it sounds, I just moved and 80%
- of my miggy stuff, aside from machines and RKMs, are still in the garage)
- and if nothing else fire it off as an email to you.
-
- I cheated and looked ahead to see what words of wisdom that DaveH had to
- put into this discussion. He, too, has heard nothing of this. Either it
- was handled down the chain a bit without his being bothered with it, or
- I'm starting to hallucinate in my old age (hey, where did those purple
- wombats come from?). Only one way to resolve this -- well, two, but time
- travel has yet to be perfected.
-
- >Incidentally, this sort of thing would make ideal material for an A3000
- >Hardware Guide; hopefully, someone is collecting this information and
- >working on one.
-
- Yah. When to remove them, when to not, and when to despair (when they're
- soldered in). What to do if they're missing (part numbers would be
- great), where the $@#$@# are they, that sort of thing :-)
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