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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Re: scsi error.
To: andrew.r.cress@intel.com (Cress, Andrew R)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:15:23 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <A5974D8E5F98D511BB910002A50A66470580D1F1@hdsmsx103.hd.intel.com> from "Cress, Andrew R" at Sep 23, 2002 07:35:35 AM
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> You apparently have a Data Parity Error on your SCSI bus.  Probably your
> external SCSI drive has a cable or terminator problem.  You can confirm this
> by disconnecting the external SCSI cable to see if the other drives come up
> ok.  
> You may be missing some termination, either via an external terminator or by
> turning on the drive's TERMPWR jumper on the external drive (depending on
> the type of disk cabinet you have).  Or, the external SCSI cable may be
> faulty (usually bent pins).

Also, it could be that you are using a cable designed for a Mac - those cables often don't have all of the GND lines individually connected, and can cause seemingly random problems.

John