| From: | Jonathan Hart |
| Date: | 10 Jul 2000 at 00:56:06 |
| Subject: | Re: Slow Zip Disc Formatting |
Hi there Neil
On 08-Jul-00, you wrote:
> Jonathan Hart said,
>> My zip is external, and is connected by a piece of external cable coming
>> off as a stub from the main internal cable (through a nice socket I put
>> on the back of the tower). I have had absolutely no data curruption or
>> drive errors with the Zip or HD with this setup, but I've heard it is not
>> recommended to have a stub.
>
> It's not only "not recommended", it's specifically against the standard.
> A short stub, up to 4" is considered OK. The correct layout would be to
My "stub" exceeds this by a margin. I won't boast, but unbiased observers
have put it at about a foot or more in length.
> put the hard drive between the CD and the Zip, with the Zip's socket
> attached to the end of the internal cable. Then you terminate the
> controller and Zip drive and everything should be spot on.
Am I on borrowed time? How could I test my drives- give me some heavy tests
to do and I'll see if I get any errors, but as I said, there have been
none. I use decent cabling. I have Opus so I could try doing a few
simultanous copies of some big archives from the HD to the Zip maybe?
You have worried me now saying that it is against the SCSI standard :(
> I never had any problems with the Zip's internal termination, although
> I now use an external terminator plugged into the Zip.
How much and from where? :)
All the best,
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