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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: GVP SCSI / Cyberstorm
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 18:23:23 GMT
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- Ian Bale (nxbali@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch) wrote:
- : Does anyone know of any compatibility problems between GVP
- : SCSI A4008 board and a Cyberstorm 060 board?
-
- [clip]
-
- : Also, can anyone suggets what to do about termination? I've got
- : the Hard Drive, and CD-ROM; neither of these has terminating
- : resitors, (and no place to put them).
-
- That's extremely unusual. Some drives have the terminators installed so
- they lay flat on the PC board, and when removed, the sockets are back in
- from the edge and nearly invisible. Look again, and use a flashlight to
- make sure.
-
- : Obviously the cable should
- : be terminated somehow. Can you get a terminator to attach to
- : the cable instead, similar to what you'd use for a external
- : cable ??
-
- They are around somewhere, but quite expensive and rare. Better yet
- would be to find the termintor sockets on the drives (see above...) or
- run the cable to an external connector, where a normal external
- terminator can be connected.
-
- : (Ps. I don't think this has anything to do with the problem above,
- : as I've used a 4" cable, with only the hard drive attached, and
- : the doc's say that in this case, I should not use a terminator)
-
- GVP termination and documents thereon...well, let's just say that I'd not
- take them too seriously. Certainly the correct way to run this would be
- to have both the controller and the drive terminated, regardless of the
- length of the cable. When you add the CD-ROM, termination becomes much
- touchier, and the standard way (termination only at the ends) is the most
- likely to work.
-
- Send me email if you want the SCSI Examples document, which documents
- termination and such in mind-numbing detail. 8-)
-
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