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- From: "Bob K." <bobk@synthesys.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 SCSI
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 22:23:24 GMT
- Organization: Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
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- Geoff Taylor <carinehs@vianet.net.au> wrote:
- >Does anyone know where I can purchase or locate terminating resistors
- >for the controller end of the A3000 scsi bus?
- >
- >I am having random read errors with two hard drives when they are cold.
- >Excellent advice from Warren Block points to the need for me to terminate
- >the controller end of the bus which is currently unterminated.
- >Either 8-pin sip resistor packs to fit the internal motherboard sockets, or
- >a dB25 external plug terminator are needed but I cannot locate a supply
- >locally.
- >I tried fabricating a dB25 plug with 220/230 resistors as a voltage divider
- >on each data pin between the 5V terminating power pin and the ground pin,
- >but so far without success. (yes, I did check for 5V first!)
- >
- Geoff, try Redmond cable. That's where I got mine. It was
- all of $9.00.
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- -Bob- E-Mail: bobk@synthesys.com
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