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- From: stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu (Stuart R. Harper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: ESDI => SCSI Adapter
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.224604.19643@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 22:46:04 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.184415.18232@novell.com> <1992Dec18.165803.25497@novell.com>
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- In article <1992Dec18.165803.25497@novell.com>, damurphy@wc.novell.com (Duane Murphy) writes:
- >
- > In article Stuart R. Harper, stuart@lorelei.ece.drexel.edu writes:
- > > It sounds like the SCSI bus isn't terminating properly. First check the
- > >adapter and see if it allows you to switch in the termination, if it
- > does,
- > >then turn it on and try the drive.
- > > Alternatly, you can buy an "inline" terminator, that you will have to
- > >place on the SCSI cable between the computer and the adapter.
- >
- > Thanks for the idea.
-
- Don't mention it, that's what the Net is for. ;-)
-
- Now for your individual points...
- > Here are some ideas that I thought of. Could any of these cause the
- > problem:
- > 1. Double termination. Could an external and an internal terminator
- > cause this problem?
- >
- > 2. Termination on the internal Apple drive. Do I need to do anything to
- > the Apple drive inside the Mac?
-
- The SCSI bus requires a terminator on each end of the bus. With one device,
- one terminator is needed. With two devices, you need two terminators. With
- more than 2 device you need a terminator on the devices at the physical ends
- of the bus. If you don't have enough terminators, devices on the bus will be
- "invisible" to the mac.
-
- > 3. Address collision. Could this happen if both the internal and
- > external drive were on the same SCSI address?
-
- If there was a simple address collision then, in my experience, one or the
- other devices will be "visible" and the other will not appear.
-