Cdrom drive access question

[Jeff Mings]

Deanmeister!

    If I recall correctly, an active terminator terminates each scsi 
line with the equivalent of mini voltage-regulator ICs, rather than 
simple resistors/diodes, which are much less precise and don't always 
work with the newer super-duper SCSI types, like ultra160.  Most 
terminators are the simple passive ones.
    If your zip device is one of the blue external guys, there's a 
switch on the back that lets you use it to terminate one end of the 
chain.  Then you'll only need a terminator for the other one.

-Jeff Mings



Dean Fujioka wrote:

>Jeffery,
>
>I do not think I have an active terminator, you may well be correct. If
>memory serves me right, the active terminator is a little device you put on
>the end of the chain, right? I don't have one...but I only have two devices
>on a relatively short (I'll have to yank it out to measure its length)
>cable. BTW its one of those older 50 pin types.
>
>thanks,
>
>dean
>p.s. I have to go to class now and will not be able to respond till later.
>