Kim G. S. writes:
 > >  > I never had any external devices. The PD is terminated, without
 > >  > termination power, and is at the end of the cable. The 256MB HD
 > >  > which I gave away, was at the middle of the cable, without
 > >  > termination resistors. Everything works perfect under
 > >  > RiscOS, but hangs the bootsequence of RiscBSD, after I removed the HD.
 > >  > 
 > >  > So I am very sure that the problem is software, not hardware.
 > > 
 > > Very true. The problem lies with the cumana driver turning off board
 > > termination. The work around it to ensure the bus is correctly
 > > terminated ie put a terminator on the back of the card. This will be
 > > fixed (eventually).
 > 
 > I borrowed a SCSI-2 terminator today, and this resulted in
 > the boot procedure getting hung too, but on a different
 > place, i.e. 2 lines more output:
 > sfasintr:SCSI-RESET detected!sfasintr:...  
 > ...SET detected!sfasintr:SCSI-

OK looks like the terminator has really screwed things up. This is
what you see if there are no devices at all.

 > So: yes, your advice removed 1 bug, to uncover another...  :-]
 > 
 > Kim0

Cheers Scott

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