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From: ty@springs.cis.ufl.edu (Tyng-Jing Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Floppy Drive & How to check SCSI port is OK ?
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Date: 10 Apr 91 03:33:20 GMT
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Hi, 
   I feel I was forced (unhappy) to buy a floppy to keep up with NeXT, because
SoftPC has to be install from floppy, Improv, Upgraded Mathmatica,Sybase
.. will be distributed on floppy. and because I fall in love with NeXTCube too
early so I can't I get a free floppy. All the signs I sense from NeXT 
is "Buy a floppy !"

Well, I did try to buy a DIT floppy2.9 w/floppyworks but
I failed to install a DIT floppy last week. We(me &NeXTconnection&DIT)
thought I got a defective floppy after we tried all the possible 
solutions, change floppy's address, check termination switch ...etc.
BTW, the error message under monitor window is "sc:Didn't completed".
The system only could boot up after I detached the floppy SCSI2 cable.

But the floppy is ok after it returned to NeXTconnection checked by
their tech people. So there are two more possiblities can go wrongs
1. I didn't install it properly, although I think I didn't mess it up.
2. I got a new 040 board with a defective scsi port.

Here goes my question,
How can I check my SCSI port is ok without hook up any device ?
I hope I'm wrong by proving SCSI port is ok.

Anybody got a defective SCSI2 port before ?

Thanks for your response

Jing