Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 06:52:46 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crash advice needed (long) APPENDIX A Message-ID: <199603241152.GAA08699@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199603230018.RAA03625@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 22, 96 05:18:47 pm
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> Maybe it was just the C, then? > > Help! Rod! 8-). Can I be Rod? (Let's see, where is my curmudgeon hat...) Early C's were aggressive with bus timing and they ran into problems with substandard cabling. Adaptec modified them to slow down the REQ/ACK timing. If you had problems with those early ones, or if you bought a late early one, you will have resistors tacked to the boards. I don't think this has anything to do with internal versus external cabling - I think people are just more likely to have lower quality external cables sitting around. I know I did - I had some external cables that worked and some that didn't. I had the board "fixed". Peter -- *** March 13, 1996: Our ISP may be GONE. You may never read this. *** *** "hda.com" connectivity is now intermittent to nonexistent *** Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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