remote twinax connection problem

["Ilena E. Ayala" <Ilena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck wrote:
>We suspected a bad twinax card, but had no way of finding out which
>one was bad until we bought a brand new IBM twinax card and swapped
>it into each PC in turn until the failures went away.  We used the
"marginal"
>card in a local PC without any problems.<

If possible, you can track this possibility down (since "only" 4 pcs are in
the 
suspect pool), by disconnecting them one at a time and seeing if the others
come up.  Alternately you could disconnect them all and reconnect them
one at a time (e.g., if its possible more than one card is bad).

We had a similar signal strength issue at a former workplace; I found out
that
printers 'suck up' roughly twice as much signal strength as a dumb
terminal. 
In our case, the 'fix' was to not hook more than one printer to any given
port.

-Ilena Ayala


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