Christian Smith wrote:

> 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.

yep thks,
although last night i went to wack a terminator on the bus on the
back of the cdrom device and found that there was a switch which
said "terminate" and it was on. So it was terminated all along anyway!

P.






>
>
> Christian
>
> PS. No, it was not my fault:)
>
> --
>      /"\
>      \ /    ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL
>       X                           - AGAINST MS ATTACHMENTS
>      / \

--

____________________________________________

Paul
Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
____________________________________________




"In a world without walls and fences,
who needs windows and gates ?"