According to Sean Witham:
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>Any help or advice on varioous hardware checks and software checks
>would be of use. I'm goign to get some passive and active through
>terminators as try them instead of the drive termination. Thing seem
>to work when I turn the termiantion off on segate drive. The dat
>drive has no termination ability so I can't use that instead.
>

One thing you should do is check that you have parity checking on on
all the scsi devices - that may catch something.  Also make sure that
you have no unterminated stubs (as someone else advised...), when I
read your original message again it sounds like you have terminated
the scsi cable just short of the end of the physical cable - this is
not good.  At the speeds that even plain ole SCSI runs the cable is a
transmission line where unterminated stubs can cause all sorts of
havoc like signals bouncing off the end of the cable and munging the
perceived signal at the termination.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, British Aerospace Australia
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