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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 11:26:12 EST
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From: ed@qtc.UUCP (Ed Lisle)
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Subject: Re: SBI faults
Summary: Do NOT Touch SBI Cables
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Date: 4 Mar 87 16:26:11 GMT
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Whatever you do do not touch the SBI Cables or even let Digital touch
them.  Yes, I do agree that these cables could be a bit sensitive
but it's better to replace them than to screw with them.

I used to have an engineer whenever we use to have strange problems
he used to reseat all of the SBI cables.  Wrong.  Try not to touch
them at all.  I had everyone of the cables replaced at one time.
If digital can not figure out your problem, then have them replace
a whole row of cables (a row at a time).  These stupid cables can
break very easily just by looking at them :-)

On my 780, one time,  I used to get SBI faults because of the LSI-11

Good luck.

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