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Date:	Wed, 13 Nov 2002 12:03:03 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Cable, connector, H/D

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> >attempts, Hard Drive 0 did not show up at all, just H/D 1. I tried again
> >a couple hours later, and got as far as the Warp 4 blue background logo
> >screen, but no further. The boot drive was audibly laboring.

Steven replied:

> It might have been in a permanent retry loop.

O.K. -- I guess that has to be better than some mechanical problem on the H/D itself.

> You might want to consider getting the cable replaced. I would ask
> Granite if the cable is still in warranty.

I believe most of Granite Digital's own cable line has a lifetime warranty. For sure the upper echelon models
do. However, you have to return the cable to them, where the problem must be verified. Altogether reasonable,
but it does leave one without a critical component for awhile, and there's the question of whether they can verify
the failure. I replaced their 2nd., lesser, SCSI cable (for all the slow devices) with a new one, when this
system was rebuilt in June, but haven't bothered to return that one. It had developed a reliability problem for
supporting the tape drive.

If the cable itself was going bad, I might expect to see some problem re the other H/D connected to it. This
leads me to suppose it is more likely the connector I've now stopped using, or something in the boot H/D itself,
that is at fault.

I'd still like to hear the answers to the questions I posed re the best procedure for cloning the boot H/D to its
spare twin.

Jordan

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