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Re: (?) CD ROM player trouble

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From: Edward Murphy
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 22:53
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Edward Murphy writes
> 
> printf( "%s\n", "hello world!" );
> 
> Situation: We recently purchased a NeXT CD which arrived without the  
> cables. We then went out, bought a scsi cable & terminator and hooked it  
> up to one of our cubes here. When we turn the machine on it won't come  
up  
> all the way and we get the error message "scsi selection failed". Our  
> presumption is that the CD is reponsible (since the cube boots fine  
> without it).
> 
> We've tried several things, but nothing has worked. Anyone had similar  
> experience or maybe suggestions?

we worked it out. apparently the cd is internally terminated (and we had  
no docs to tell us this). after removing the temrinator, it works find.

ed
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From: emurphy@cs.uno.edu (Edward Murphy)
Subject: Re: (?) CD ROM player trouble
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