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- From: sticht@edith.deg.sub.org (Stefan Sticht)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: A3000 w/ Quantum P425S under Amix: SCSI bus hangs randomly. Help!
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- Message-ID: <sticht.0d8p@edith.deg.sub.org>
- References: <sticht.0d0j@edith.deg.sub.org> <1992Nov19.154535.4376@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 13:12:11 MET
- Organization: private
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Nov19.154535.4376@bernina.ethz.ch> wild@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Markus Wild) writes:
- >In article <sticht.0d0j@edith.deg.sub.org> sticht@edith.deg.sub.org (Stefan Sticht) writes:
- >>But the SCSI bus hangs randomly. The A3000's and the drive's LED are
- >>burning forever.
- >>
- >>It's not likely a problem of the harddisk, because the drive works fine in
- >>another A3000 (25Mhz, 2+16MB) and it seems to work fine under AmigaOS (2.04
- >>and 3.0), but I tested this only extensively. A Quantum LP52S also works
- >>fine under AmigaOS.
- >>
- >>Then I tried another harddisk for Unix, an external Syquest. Same problem:
- >>the SCSI bus hangs randomly. The Syquest works fine (under Unix) on the
- >>other A3000 (the 25MHz one).
- >
- >You don't have per chance the 'sync-enable' bit set in battmem on one computer
- >and not set on the other? The bit must be *cleared*, or you get such or
- >similar problems.
-
- No, both machines have the bit cleared.
-
- Gruss, Stefan
-