[tech] Re: [wheel] Install that patch

Simon Fryer fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Feb 16 02:07:42 WST 2000


Bingle

> A while ago Warrick Mitchell tapped:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 06:55:26PM +0800, Simon Fryer wrote:

> You will probably find, if you take the "TERM" jumper of the Cdrom you can hang other devices of the chain (the external one), otherwise it bitches if the cdrom is not "TERM" set and there is no terminator on the external interface.

That would be the problem then. I thought it may be to do with some of the 
weirdness of 3 headed scsi cards. I didn't feel the need to take the case off
the alpha when there was a perfectly good next at home that just needed an
excuse to be connected. :-)

See Ya
Simon

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