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- From: smyers.s@applelink.apple.com (Scott Smyers)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: Seagate and Macintosh...
- Message-ID: <34753@goofy.apple.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 20:51:49 GMT
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- I think that Alex P. Novickis has a point in suggesting that you check to
- make sure that your internal drive is terminated. If you are trying to
- run the system with the internal drive being the only thing on the SCSI
- bus, AND if that drive does not have its terminator SIPs installed, then
- you don't have a prayer. In fact, I would guess that the drive always
- believes that it is being selected with every selection phase because
- with no termination, its ID will always look asserted (this is not
- guaranteed to be the case, however. No termination would also explain
- why any diagnostic software would believe that the bus is completely idle.
-
- If you don't have any SIPs to install in your internal drive, or if you
- don't feel like taking the cover off of your mac yet again, try hooking
- up an external SCSI cable and putting a terminator on the end of that.
- That should give you enough current to get off the dime.
-
- The problem is that SCSI is an open collector bus, which means that the
- 48 ma drivers have to sink 48 ma to drive a signal (active low), but they
- are not permitted to drive any current onto the bus themselves. Only the
- terminators are permitted to put current on the bus. Which brings up
- another point: If you don't have termpower on the bus (as might be the
- case if you have blown a fuse) then adding a terminator won't work either.
-
- I hope that works for you.
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- Scott Smyers
- Apple Computer
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