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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: RE: A3000 SCSI questions
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 06:57:29 GMT
- Organization: CTS Network Services
- Message-ID: <927.6596T1343T505@crash.cts.com>
- References: <310274F1.4F0F@vianet.net.au>
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- On 21-Jan-96 22:16:33, G.Taylor was reported to have said:
- >I originally had a single Maxtor 120 Mb on the SCSI bus as #6
- >Some time ago I attached a second Maxtor 120Mb on the SCSI bus at #5.
- >I removed the terminating resistors on the drive on #5 as per
- >installation instructions.
-
- The question is did you remove the terminators from the drive closest in
- the SCSI chain to the motherboard, ie SCSI controller?
-
- +-----------+ +---------+ +---------+
- | SCSI Cont |-----| Drive 1 |-----| Drive 2 |
- +-----------+ +---------+ +---------+
- ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
- UNterminated Terminated
-
- The SCSI ID has no bearing on which drive gets terminated.
-
- Technically the SCSI controller (A3000 motherboard) should be terminated as
- well but most A3000s did not have them installed as shipped. In most
- cases, this doesn't seem to be a problem.
-
- Phil
-
- pwright@crash.cts.com
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