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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: Finder crashes
- Message-ID: <1098@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- References: <1992Sep10.125149.3830@deadzone.princeton.edu> <1992Sep10.214712.1382@massey.ac.nz> <1086@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> <18t9niINNs0n@smurf.smurf.sub.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:58:24 GMT
-
- urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
- >>
- >> The Mac requires that all SCSI devices have Unit Attention disabled. This
-
- >That doesn't apply to A/UX.
-
- >> is either done via setting some SCSI Mode Pages on the disk or with a
- >> small jumper on the disk's controller board. Unit Attention is entered
- >> during a SCSI bus reset.
- >>
- >And it is exited as soon as the Unit Attention is transmitted to the Mac.
- >Thus, it's a major mystery why the Unit Attention shows up more than once,
- >above; it shouldn't.
-
- True... the above "bug" was fixed back in the Mac Platinum days... still,
- more than a few disks have been observed not to work when Unit Attention
- is enabled... Why? I have no idea...
- --
- Jim Jagielski | "This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
- jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | Let's not bicker and argue about who
- NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4 | killed who."
- Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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