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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 SCSI questions
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 08:02:22 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4ehuue$9te@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <310274F1.4F0F@vianet.net.au> <927.6596T1343T505@crash.cts.com>
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- In article <927.6596T1343T505@crash.cts.com>,
- pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright) wrote:
- >
- >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, with one drive and a very short cable SCSI can run reasonably reliably
- with only one terminator. This falls in with transmissionline theory quite
- nicely. To get two drives in there the cable mustbe longer. You no longer have a
- happy system. If you examine the cable in a one drive direct from the factory
- A3000 you will note that it is quite short. You cannot keep it that short with
- two drives. The "ideal" way to handle this is one terminator on drive two as you
- cite and an external terminator on the machine's external SCSI port. (A3000Ts
- are shipped with this terminator.)
-
- The devices, controller or harddisk or cdrom or tape or printer or fax machine
- or whatever, on the two (and ONLY two) ends of the SCSI bus should be terminated
- and all other devices should not be terminated. Each device in any given
- position can respond to any unique to the bus SCSI address from 0 through 7.
- These numbers have no significance for termination locations. They are simply
- the logical address on the bus for that device. (During certain arbitration
- operations at low levels on the bus the numbers indicate the priority that
- governs that device's access. Lower number equals lower bus priority.)
-
- > Phil
- >
- >pwright@crash.cts.com
-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
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