[Sunhelp] strangeness with Plextor CD-ROM and Netra T1

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:34 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] strangeness with Plextor CD-ROM and Netra T1
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 02:03:09PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Got any other external boxes around?  You could try 
> plugging something else
> > in there, and see if it does the same thing.  The only time 
> that I've had a
> > problem with "ghost" SCSI devices was on an un-terminated 
> Ultra SCSI bus
> > (8-bit, 20MHz), and once when I had two devices on the same 
> ID, one of them
> > took over the entire bus.  I guess you could also try 
> changing the SCSI ID
> > on one device or the other.
> > 	Greg
> 
> I just went and bought a new 68-pin-to-Centronics SCSI cable, and it
> does the same thing...

Sounds like a problem with  the drive itself then...  Plug it into something
else and see what happens.  Do either of those cables terminate the high
bits on the bus?  That shouldn't be a problem since you're not using any
high bit ids, but you never know...
	Greg