SCSI troubles (of the UW variety)

[Adam]

>On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Adam McDougall wrote:
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>> bent scsi pins sounds like bad news all around :( see if you can bend them
>> back in place without weakening them, you dont want pins breaking off in
>> the female conductor.. otherwise get a new cable and start from there.
>> How is your termination?  Remember the last device on the 50 pin side, and
>> the last device on the 68 pin side must be terminated, and the controller
>> set to High Only or Auto term.  Is this a problem that came up recently
>> out of the blue or with a change?
>> 
>> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, T.C. Mingus wrote:
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>> > 
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>The AHA-2940 has automatic termination, and I never really had to deal
>with termination before, and I don't think I have any brokenpins, just

Please make sure you have one terminated device on the end of each
chain.  It doesnt sound like you are sure, and autoterm on the adapter
*will not* cover this.  Just making sure you understand :)  Also, you
might want to have someone local check out the drives for you if you
suspect them.


>bent. I've just found a narrow to UW adapter I'm going to try to see if it
>is my cable, or less likely, my UW jack on my controller.. I'd be real
>suprised if both drives are bad. But it is possible. Termination never
>seemed to impact my drives in anyway, I just set them to a unique ID, and
>off I went, no problem. *shrugs* How often does SCSI go bad, anyway? 
>I thought it was better then IDE... Well anyway, I got both 4.5G UW HD's
>for free, so if they are bad, I guess I'm not out much.. just a reinstall. 
>*makes mental note to find a CD-R full backup package for next time*
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