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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: SCSI Interface:terminator and ID information required
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.225144.6297@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Keywords: SCSI
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1gi91qINN5k8@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:51:44 GMT
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- In <1gi91qINN5k8@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis) writes:
-
-
- >Dear all,
-
- > I suppose that my ignorance on SCSI systems is deep but I need the following
- >information quite fast:
-
- > My controller requires that there are terminator resistors at both ends of
- > the SCSI bus. The one end is supplied by the board itself (Adaptec 1542B)
- > the other must be provided by a SCSI device. Currently I have connected
- > my hard disk at ID 1 with the resistors powered. Now I want to add a tape
- > drive on the SCSI interface. Where do the terminators go? To the last SCSI
- > target? To the last physical device on the cable?
-
- Correct. The terminators are to prevent electrical 'echos' from
- futzing up the bus. It IS sometimes possible to run without them
- (I've run my AHA-1740 unterminated on one end for a while).
-
- > Do targets have to be
- > connected on the SCSI bus according to their ID (i.e. 1 first then 2 etc...).
- > I would prefer not to change the configuration of the HD at ID1 and just add
- > the tape drive with the resistors powered off. Could that be done? (e.g. by
- > connecting the tape first onthe SCSI cable and the disk next?)
-
- I would think this ought to work. I can't imagine how the controller
- could tell who is plugged in where. A bus is a bus, right? As long
- as it's all in a line and terminated on both ends, I don't see why you
- shouldn't be able to hang them in any order you want.
-
- HOWEVER, theory and practice sometimes don't go well together. It
- seems that there are SOME devices that will interfere with devices
- further down the chain from them. This doesn't have anything to do
- with ID's, but rather with how each device acts on the bus. Given
- that, you may find yourself having to rearrange devices on the chain
- anyway.
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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