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From: martya@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Marty Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Double termination on a //ci ??
Message-ID: <-531597662@cpl-mfh.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 11:33:34 GMT
Organization: Clinical Pharmacokinetics Lab, SUNY at Buffalo
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A friend of mine has a high capacity external rodime hard drive.  They
just upgraded to a //ci from an SE and took their hard drive with them.
They began to have problems with the machine crashing excessively and
making work impossible.  After going over his problems and what he had tried
to do to correct them, I suggested he call Rodime and check if there were
new drivers for the hard disk.  Sure enough they sent him updated drivers
for his //ci and this helped clear up most of the problem, but his machine
was still bombing occasionally.  He called up Rodime tech support again and
they suggested to doubly terminate the SCSI interface, seems that the new
higher speed SCSI was causing RFI? noise to bounce back and might be
causing his problem.  He tried this and sure enough his problems went away.
I have personally never heard of this problem, has anyone else heard about
this and is the explanation plausible???

Any comments welcome.

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Marty Adelman, PH.D.                    Phone: (716) 887-4572
Director Computer Systems            Internet: cpl-mfh!martya@acsu.buffalo.edu
Clinical Pharmacokinetics Laboratory     UUCP: !sunybcs!cpl-mfh!martya
State University of New York at Buffalo                   
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