[Coco] calling all MM/1 owners

Bob Devries devries.bob at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 21:16:46 EST 2008


Dave said:
> Have you checked to make sure the drive / cable is properly terminated?

Dave, the cables are in good condition, and the termination resistors are in 
on the drive. This MM/1 has done this from when I got it (a few years ago 
now).

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave R in Illinois" <lazyhand at sbcglobal.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:03 PM
Subject: [Coco] calling all MM/1 owners


> Have you checked to make sure the drive / cable is properly terminated? 
> I've
> seen corroded pins on terminators do strange things to raid arrays. I 
> never
> owned a mm1 so I am not sure if there even is one, I would assume there
> would be.
>
>
>
> -Dave
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________
>
>
>
> I have a small problem with my MM/1, and I'm wondering if there was ever a
> fix for it?
>
> When I power it up, the computer goes through its procedure to try to boot
> from the floppy, and then from the SCSI hard disc. It *always* locks up 
> the
> SCSI bus at that point, and pressing reset does not unlock it. I need to
> cycle the power to unlock it. It then usually fires up correctly, but not
> always.
>
> My MM/1 is a 3MB with the expansion board. It has a 170MB Quantum SCSI
> drive. The drive itself initialises properly (at least, it makes all the
> right noises).
>
> Comments anyone?
> -- 
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
>
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