home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: janus.arc.ab.ca!CARDINAL
- From: cardinal@janus.arc.ab.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 SCSI questions
- Date: 9 Jan 1996 19:37:11 GMT
- Organization: Alberta Research Council
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4cug57$4e3@mercury.arc.ab.ca>
- References: <4crkgh$ct6@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
- Reply-To: cardinal@janus.arc.ab.ca
- NNTP-Posting-Host: janus.arc.ab.ca
-
- In article <4crkgh$ct6@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>, csanii@bnr.ca (Cyrus Sanii) writes:
- >
- >I have an A3000 with the following setup:
- >...
-
- Termination. Termination. Termination.
-
- Correct SCSI bus termination requires one terminator on each end of
- the bus. The physical ends of the bus.
-
- I ended up removing the terminators on my A3000 motherboard to achieve
- good termination. I had to break the terminators right off. There are
- three of them, two long ones that were easy to find and one stubby one
- that had me baffled for a while. When done, my A3000 behaves properly
- regardless of the power states of external devices.
-
- Another potential pitfall are cheap SCSI cables. If your new cables
- cost less than $30 CDN each, you are asking for problems. Generally,
- the cables that come with quality equipment (HP) are ok. But, you
- need to be careful and test, some bad ones can surface (iOmega Zip).
-
- -May the coyote wail slightly off key
- -Garry Cardinal <cardinal@arc.ab.ca> Electric Indian
-