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From: tim@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Timothy L. Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: SGI IRIS 80GTB SCSI bus problem solved
Message-ID: <12249@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 15 Oct 89 20:49:44 GMT
Reply-To: tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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I recently posted that we were having trouble when we tried to
hang too many devices (6) off the 80GTB SCSI bus.  I got many
very useful responses, and lots of good information.

It turns out that I made a bad assumption.  I had assumed that Silicon
Graphics would ship their $100,000 machine configured correctly!  It
turns out that they sent it out with too many terminators already on
the bus!!!  When I added our drives, I very carefully removed the
terminators that were supposed to be there (on the disk drive), but I
failed to remove the terminators on the SGI supplied tape drive.  Thing
is that they should never have been there in the first place!!!

Grrrrr.

Tim