Cdrom drive access question

[Dean Fujioka]

Mingsinator and MonMotha,
I guess this means checking on the drive itself (it's internal) for a jumper
that enables termination. Does this mean that I also disable the SCSI card
termination (via the CTRL-A)? It should (I hope) be set already, but I won't
get a chance to check into the hardware until I get home tonite after work
and class.
thanks

dean


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Mings" <jeffm at lava.net>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 5:03 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: Cdrom drive access question


> 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

----- Original Message -----
From: "MonMotha" <monmotha at indy.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:52 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: Cdrom drive access question


> Oh, if you don't have a terminator at all on the chain, check to make
> sure that the last drive on the chain is terminating properly.  If not,
> you're operating a SCSI chain without ANY termination and this is never
> a good thing :)
>
> --MonMotha
>
>