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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 SCSI/3.1ROMS PROBLEM
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 08:48:47 GMT
- Organization: News Corporation
- Message-ID: <4gem9f$koe@merlin.iguide.com>
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- In article <4g27fi$co3@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw>, serpent@voicenet.com wrote:
- >
- >It is not the cables. I've removed all but one drive on the DB25, swapped
- >drive positions and the problem still persists. It's plain weird that my boot
- >drive(Quantum 52) is the only one giving the errors. Also, if the diode was
- >reversed, shouldn't I have had a problem no matter what OS version installed?
- >I've been running this setup since last summer with the 3.1 softkicked ROMS
- >without any problems. Only reason I bought the 3.1ROMs was so I can drop in a
- >accelerator board and get back 500k of memory.
- >
- >I've also tried unsuccessfully in the past adding a 1GB CONNER SCSI-2 drive.
- >No matter what configuration, even as the sole drive in the machine, I could
- >not get it to work without any errors. This was before installing the 3.1ROMs.
- >I'm glad my hair was cut. I spared my scalp the abused of tearing my hair
- >out!
-
- Until you remove every vistage of 25 wire cable from your SCSI bus this problem
- is likely to persist. 25 wire cable is suitable for toys. It is not suitable for
- serious computers. (Hence I consider external ZIP drives as they come from the
- manufacturer to be little more than cute toys and will not let one near my
- machines.)
-
- >Eric
- >
-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com
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