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- From: ah802@torfree.net (Pat Kushko)
- Subject: Re: HELP!: External CDROM Problem! (termination?)
- Message-ID: <DppM07.A1o.0.sheppard@torfree.net>
- Organization: Toronto Free-Net
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- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 18:00:05 GMT
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- Patrick William Mackin (pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
-
- : I have heard that in rare cases the A3000 motherboard is
- : terminated?? And that I must remove that termination and
- : terminate the drive? I lookied for about 1/2 hour and could
- : find no such thing
-
- Most A3000's come stock without terminators on the motherboard.
- The sockets for MB termination are located very close to the
- scsi cable on the MB end. Some quantum hd's have the correct
- resistor packs (looks like you'll need three).
-
- : I'm no electronics whiz. I just want this thing to work!!
- : Otherwise, who knows of a cheap IDE solution for th eA3000?
-
- There's no easy answer to your termination problems, different
- MB's and configurations have made a universal solution hard to
- give especially with the NEC-25b CD-ROM.
-
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