Subject: Re: scsi question with sparcstation.
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Christian Smith <csmith@thewrongchristian.org.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/20/2006 17:07:35
Brett Lymn uttered:

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:21:19PM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
>>
>> this wouldn't be causing seg faults on my builds also would it?
>>
>
> Not without you seeing _lots_ of error messages.  I think that it is
> unlikely to be the cause of the seg faults.


Except I've experienced a SS20 that had to have the main board replaced 
due to an unterminated bus. The unterminated SCSI signals caused some 
hardware failure, though I'm not sure of the details. It was an expensive 
cock-up, especially as it was back in 1996 when SS20s were still 
expensive!

As the SS20 and SS5 are so similar, it's not unreasonable to suspect 
hardware failure on the mainboard due to this SCSI interference.


Christian

PS. No, it was not my fault:)

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