Cdrom drive access question

[MonMotha]

The SCSI card should also have termination enabled to terminate that end 
of the chain.  SCSI needs termination at each end of the chain.

If your HDD or other drive (ONLY the one at the end of the chain) 
doesn't have built in termination, you will need to acquire a terminator 
to put on that end of the chain.

--MonMotha

Dean Fujioka wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
> 
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