thus Christian Smith spake:
> Brett Lymn uttered:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:21:19PM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS). wrote:
>>>
>>> this wouldn't be causing seg faults on my builds also would it?
>>>
>>
>> Not without you seeing _lots_ of error messages.  I think that it is
>> unlikely to be the cause of the seg faults.
> 
> 
> Except I've experienced a SS20 that had to have the main board replaced 
> due to an unterminated bus. The unterminated SCSI signals caused some 
> hardware failure, though I'm not sure of the details. It was an 
> expensive cock-up, especially as it was back in 1996 when SS20s were 
> still expensive!
> 
> As the SS20 and SS5 are so similar, it's not unreasonable to suspect 
> hardware failure on the mainboard due to this SCSI interference.
> 
> 
> Christian
> 
> PS. No, it was not my fault:)

hm, but it should be possible to save the machine from the dumpster 
installing an Sbus SCSI card. those are available pretty cheaply from, 
well, you know... ;)

even better, you can add a 10/100Mbps ethernet port using a combo card. :)

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