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- From: llewell@llewell.us.net (David W. Llewellyn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 SCSI questions
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 96 18:49:33
- Organization: Chaos
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960111.8375800.10F35@llewell.us.net>
- References: <4crkgh$ct6@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> <4cug57$4e3@mercury.arc.ab.ca>
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- cardinal@janus.arc.ab.ca wrote:
- : In article <4crkgh$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.
-
- Can anyone point me to pictures or diagrams detailing the location of these
- resistors. Component designators or whatever you call those numbers by the
- components on the motherboard would probably do. thanks.
- :
- : 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
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- llewell@usnet.us.net A3000 OS3.1
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