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From: woods@convex.com (Darrin Woods)
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Subject: Re: When/where to terminate SCSI
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Date: 23 Jan 91 15:38:58 GMT
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>Well, how do you know if it works?  I have three disks out there on
>that chain from my IIfx.  They *seem* to work.  Except that when I use
>GOFER (DA), which searches disks rather fast, it screws up on one of
>those disks.  Worked OK on the MacII.  Could it be due to marginal
>terminator performance?

Not to bad mouth the fx, I have one myself, but before I blamed the SCSI
chain, I would blame GoFer.  In my experiences with the fx, if there is
a problem on the SCSI bus, the fx just flat won't even boot.  This can
be correlated back to the earlier macs as well, they bomb or give a quickly
blinking bomb box on boot up if there is a problem in the SCSI chain.

Maybe someone else out there with an fx has had similar problems and can
share them and their solution.

Blacksheep

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