On Fri 31 Jan at 22:38 Frank Ramsey (1:157/603.70) wrote to Arthur Marsh:
 AM> Should a specialist cable maker be able to make a 
 AM> decent internal SCSI cable? 
 FR> There is a premium cable vendor I've used that's tops.  
 FR> Their name excapes me right now, but they are located in the 
 FR> north west US and have been written up in virtually all mags 
 FR> as making premo cables.  
I'll check some of the SCSI specialist companies here.
 FR> Sounds like you're on top of this.  While I don't have a 
 FR> bias for/against Quantum, I have seen some really strange 
 FR> things with SCSI disks.
I've had no problems yet with the IBM OEM'd drives - I imagine they have 
fairly  rigorous testing of the design and firmware of any new model before 
shipping.
 FR> Try switching to a different drive and see if the problem is cured.
If we can get one (-:
 FR> I assume you're at the most current patch kit.
Yes. 312PTA, HSM 3.30... 
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