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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
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- Subject: Re: syquest problems(help)
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 22:53:34 GMT
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- Pete Hickerson (hicker14@odi.cwc.whecn.edu) wrote:
- : I need some help with a problem. I bought a used Syquest 44 drive and used
- : it for several months on an A2000 I then bought an A4000 and tryed to
- : hook it up and it kept giving an error message that myboot drive had a read
- : error on bloce(then it would give a block # 404781 or 784060 etc...)
-
- Normally this indicates a termination or cable problem. As per usual,
- make sure termination is present on both physical ends of the bus, and
- there is none in the middle. Don't forget to check the controller.
-
- : I called a couple of companies for help and one of the techs told me that
- : the jumper on my GVP 4008 SCSI controler should be changed(that is the
- : DTACK jumper ) he said it should be open. I took the jumper off and no
- : change. A friend of mine borrowed the Syquest and it worked fine on his
- : A4000 but he has a Buster 11 (mine is a buster 9 ) could this be the
- : problem?
-
- The Buster revision should not affect the GVP board, as it is a
- Zorro-II. Send me email and I'll send you the SCSI Examples guide, which
- thoroughly lays out the ways to set up SCSI equipment. Or if you already
- have the A4000 Hardware Guide (version 3), it's already in there.
-
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