New to 2940U/UW bios v1.23

[Matthew Tebbens]

Thanks!!

Matthew


On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Peter Holzer wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 02:59:36PM -0700, TST System Administrator wrote:
> > I noticed the same thing while installing RedHat 4.2 on a new system.  
> > The notice was still their even after the installation was complete.
> > 
> > I just assumed it was in regards to the external port and ignored it.
> 
> Since none of the people who really know what they are talking about :-)
> has responded yet, I'll put in my two cents:
> 
> Newer models of the 2940 should automatically terminate the external
> connector if there is nothing plugged into it. However, sometimes
> it gets confused and terminates the bus although there are external
> devices, or fails to terminate it although there are none. So it is
> safer to manually enable or disable external termination in the setup
> (Ctrl-A) than to rely on autotermination. The AIC7xxx driver warns you
> about that. If everything works, you can ignore it, but if you have
> strange problems, it gives you a hint what you should check first.
> 
> 	hp
> 
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