Labels:book | bulletin board | earth | reckoner | sky OCR: controller chips if you exceed limits. So: Thou shalt have not more than two terminators on thy SCSI bus! 0.5 Use the black external terminators only for Mac IIfx computers and for nothing else. 5 Try to keep your cable a short as possible The SCSI protocol defines . maximum cable lenght of 6 meters. Don try to approach this limit for couple of reasons. First, the devices connected to the bus have internal cabling which adds to your external cable length. Second, every connector in the cable adds electrical noise and thus lowers the quality of the signal. Third, not all of the SCSI controllers out there are robust enough to support the full cable length although no vendor would admit this. And since all devices share single set of lines the whole bus is as weak as its weakest part! 6 Have ...
