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From: carter@cae.wisc.edu (Carter Gregory)
Subject: Re: HELP - SCSI Woes on Mac IIfx
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 25 Apr 93 11:08:09 CDT
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In article <1993Apr17.122610.28029@news.unomaha.edu> salmon@cwis.unomaha.edu (David Salmon) writes:
>According to the official documentation, failure to use the IIfx terminator
>can not only affect SCSI bus performance but can also damage the bus.
>Whether this is your problem or not I don't know. I have had sporadic SCSI
>problems with my IIfx since I bought it. (I cannot connect more than three
>devices, fourth one causes major problems).
>
>First thing to do is to try to reformat your drive on someone elses system.
>If you continue to get errors it is probably the drive. If it formats fine
>then I would try to format it on your system with no externals. If this 
>fails then the SCSI controller on your IIfx needs repair/replacement.
>
>Hope this helps.
> 
>-- 
>David C. Salmon
>salmon@unomaha.edu

Have you tried having your scsi bus balanced?

-Greg
