Re: ARGH, weird SCSI I/O errors on second/third drive on Debian/PPC
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 00:51:09 -0500, Michael D. Crawford composed:
> Jessica,
>
> However, it is my experience that Mac SCSI tends to work OK with no
> termination at all (besides what is normally provided by the host bus
> adapter). I really suspect your problem is not really termination, but I'm
> sorry to say I don't know what else it could be. It would be best to
> eliminate termination as a possibility.
i've found that to be true on more arches than just ppc, on the m68k
arch macs tend to do better without end termination, and just host
termination like you described. i dunno why exactly, but it goes against
SCSI 'voodoo' and tech specs. a strange thing, mac hardware is.
simon
PS: i didn't know the MESH chip was a known bad chip. learn a new one
everyday :)
> --
> Michael D. Crawford
>
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