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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
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- Subject: Re: A3000T EXTERNAL SCSI IS REAL END IF U HAVE BOTH
- Date: 31 Jan 1996 04:25:40 GMT
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- slider wrote:
-
- : OK on the A3000T at least which I assume goes for the A3000 as well
- : (same controller setup) Looking directly at the service manual schematics
- : the real and only end of the SCSI chain if you have both internal and
- ^^^^^^^^
- : external devices is the last device on the external buss. Now before
- : anyone says rubbish let me explain and it's very simple and easy to
- : understand if you look at the actual schematics of the A3000 or T The scsi
- : buss coming off the controller is split but not in a Y fashion it's a
- : straight line with the first branch off it going to the internal scsi
- : connector and further down the buss is the branch to the external
- : connector. For proper termination if you have external and internal
- : devices, only the last external device should be terminated.
-
- The branches you're looking at can be considered stub cables, which are
- allowed (but somewhat discouraged). In diagramatic form (the short
- vertical lines are these "stub" connections):
-
- InternalDevices Motherboard ExternalDevices
- | | |
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- From the X3T9.2 "Working Draft" SCSI-2 document, section 5.2.1:
-
- "SCSI bus termination shall be at each end of the cable and may be internal
- to the SCSI devices that are at the ends of the cable."
-
- [stuff removed]
-
- : My setup: And I have never (not infrequently) but never had problems
- : which according to some I should as I use just about every troublesome
- : type device on the SCSI.
-
- It depends on lots of variables. For most people in most situations,
- following the spec is the safest way to treat their data.
-
- : So long and short (note Commodore oversimplified their User Manual
- : trying to keep users from not terminating their scsi buss by wrongly
- : stating there are 2 scsi buss's in an A3000) Long and short is that the
- : A3000 does follow SCSI spec, has only one chain with the external chain
- : being the end of the SCSI buss.
-
- One end, but a bus has two ends, and you can't disregard the other
- (internal) end.
-
- : If you only have Internal devices no prob, just terminate the last
- : device on the internal BUSS.
-
- And the motherboard (as per spec, quoted above).
-
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