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From: krowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Intermittent DN4500 Problem
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Date: 20 Oct 89 15:03:31 GMT
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Hmm ... this may not be the same problem, but's here's something to
check. We bought a brand new DN3500 with 8MB and a 690MB disk. No
floppy or tape. It, too, would crash mysteriously and would kill users
disk I/O intensive jobs with disk errors. Yet, there were no messages
in the error logs. Our field service personel found that the disk
controller board that had been shipped with the machine had been
configured with either (or maybe both, I don't rememeber clearly) the
floppy and/or the tape enabled (this was the Western Digital multifunction
controller). He re-configured the board, and all has been fine since
then.


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