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- From: paul@engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey)
- Subject: Re: Life In Hell -- The Freeze Goes On
- Message-ID: <+HB=Fp_@engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 13:53:28 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- In article <Bx22Gp.BnB@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kemp@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu (John Kemp) writes:
-
- >[Report on the continuing search for an answer to the problem on an HP720
- >which causes unpredictable "freezes" of from 1-9 minutes. Even the
- >system "heartbeat" locks up! We've thought we had it licked before,
- >but it just isn't so. We now think of the "freeze" as a feature. ;-/]
- >
-
- Are you using an active scsi terminator? We had the same problem
- until we got the correct (external) scsi terminators. Pretty sure
- they are active.
-
- I missed any previous posts on this topic, so don't know whatever
- you've tried. This was what it boiled down to for us.
-
- >But of course, it is our own fault for being cheap and not
- >buying all HP sanctioned peripherals to begin with.
-
- We buy all our drives (which is a lot of drives) from NPI and have
- had a good experience with them, both with sales and engineering
- support. If HP wanted you to buy their drives, they would price them
- so that you would do that.
-
- >The freeze was quelled by cycling power on the HP97560 disk.
- >So obviously, the SCSI bus is somehow hanging the entire machine
- >up during a read or write call to the disk drives!!!
-
- Again, we had exactly the same problem. Just buy a cable/terminator
- kit from HP and check that out on your Wren drives. We did that just
- to troubleshoot and rule in or out cable and terminator problems.
-
- --paul
-