>> stability problems with NT.
First, I'm not likely to be able to help much, but FWIW ...
Not too surprising you can't get a dump after disk problems,
SCSI or IDE. THe dump goes to the disk, after all. Many
of my instabilities have occurred because of NT disk mapping,
ESPECIALLY when a drive path fails.
I don't have a solution, but that's a possible source of one
problem.
As to SCSI chains, yes, you're right that both ends should
be terminated. I can think of two possibilities (well,
three if you count the fact that you're only guessing about
the termination on the CDROM, but I'd guess like you that
unjumpered is terminated from your description). First,
possibly the card itself is terminated, which, if true,
would put a terminator in the middle of the chain. Lends
a somewhat different meaning to the word "terminator".
Most reasonably current cards are self-terminating,
but that was a pretty cheap card if I recall your price
list. Second, I remember from somewhere deep down in
Anand's page (I think Anand's) that there is some problem
with the ABIT BH6 and Adaptec SCSI cards. Some incompatibility. Unfortunately, many el-cheapo SCSI cards pretend to be
Adaptecs of some stripe or other to get a free ride on
the drivers.
When you say "problem happens whether SCSI drive installed
or not" are you including the adapter or just CD-ROM? That
is, is there a problem if you yank the sucker, by which I mean
the SCSI adapter, out altogether? Not that I see where to
go either way, but it's at least narrowing the scope a bit.
I'm really sorry to hear about your trouble. I wish I had
better suggestions. Hope you get it solved before I build
my next system <g>.
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