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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Help: Boot menu corrupt!
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 00:56:33 GMT
- Organization: Delphi Internet Services Corporation
- Message-ID: <4cv2s1$2lk@news2.delphi.com>
- References: <zp547aaC2xkAZ1a@blank1.blanker.ruhr.de> <1168.6579T654T546@mbox3.swipnet.se>
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- In article <1168.6579T654T546@mbox3.swipnet.se>,
- roland.bengtsson@mbox3.swipnet.se (Roland Bengtsson) wrote:
- >
- > >:Hi!
- >
- >Hi!
- >
- > >:What I do not know is: Do I have to change the termination of the internal
- > >:SCSI-Controller? If so, how do I do this?
- >
- >I have also an A3000 and I own an external HD that was unusable for a year.
- >It was because of two things. First the cable to my SCSIbox was too thin.
- >Then I changed to a real screened cable. Then i terminated the internal
- >SCSI-controller. You can do this by set two terminators just behind the SCSI-connector
- >on the motherboard. They are marked as R804 and R803. I use 220 ohms terminators
- >but I bought between 150-300 ohm to try with.
-
- Wellllll, I guess it worked for you... But that is an *UTTERLY* non-standard
- termination for the SCSI controller. SCSI controllers are designed to feed a
- pair of terminators that are 330 ohms to ground and 220 ohms to +4.3 volts,
- which is diode isolated 5 volts. This gives a termination impedance of 132 ohms
- with an equivalent supply voltage of about 2.6 volts.
-
- >Good luck!
-
- Good luck indeed. If this hack of yours does not blow a chip somewhere in the
- chain of SCSI devices by overloading it (as does more than 2 terminations) and
- it works "go for it." However do note that those sockets you cite are not
- designed for the resistor packs you inserted. I do realize that the system
- designers who developed and refined SCSI are ignorant slobs and only hackers who
- get their information by actually hacking and doing are gods. I do, however,
- think that this is a time to hack with a little more knowledge aforehack.
-
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-
- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
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- (I live on the planet Earth. That's slumming, man!)
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