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Subject: Re: HP 9000 series 400 disks
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Date: 26 Nov 90 17:40:51 GMT
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To terminate or not terminate. That is the question.
We have a 760MB Seagate disk and a 60MB cartridge drive attached to our new
400t w/ 2 internal 200MB drives using the SCSI bus. I knew from previous 
experiences with other computers that only the last device on the SCSI bus 
should be terminated and we dutifully pulled the terminators out of the Disk.
To our great consternation we could mount the 760MB disk when the 400t was 
brought up diskless but the computer would not boot off of its own internal 
disks when the 760MB was plugged in. We must have INVOLed our 760 half a dozen
times. Finally one of our techs suggested that we try putting the terminators
back in and voila everything worked fine. This 400t now has 2 760MB drives 
and a cartridge tape all with terminators. We have brought up several other
400t machines with the 760MB disks and everything seems to be working fine.

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D. Gilbert Lee, Jr.