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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Next cube system problems
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.172006.817@shaman.com>
Date: 31 Mar 91 17:20:06 GMT
References: <1991Mar30.162357.1745@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Organization: Shaman Consulting
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In article <1991Mar30.162357.1745@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) writes:
>
>FIRST, I added a PLI drive in a SCSI chain that goes from an external HD,
>to the PLI drive, and then to a scanner.  I seem to lose the PLI drive 
>periodically with zillions of repeated messages like:
>
>  Mar 30 10:15:47 ljkiraly mach: sd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x0 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
>  Mar 30 10:15:48 ljkiraly mach: sd2 (4,0): ERROR op:0x0 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
>  Mar 30 10:16:17 ljkiraly last message repeated 24 times

	Is this a Mac PLI drive? Apparently you cannot connect Mac PLI
drives to the NeXT without a ROM and jumper change because they do not
fully uphold the SCSI Standard. Call PLI for details.

	- Jiro Nakamura
	jiro@shaman.com

ps. Standard disclaimers.
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