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- From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: Active termination (was Re: You will be terminated!)
- Message-ID: <4dols*sC1@caleb.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 04:10:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.070435.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> <ERIC.93Jan21064527@iceland.telebit.com>
- <yJJks*BB1@caleb.UUCP> <1993Jan22.184433.16542@sfu.ca> <ERIC.93Jan22131241@iceland.telebit.com>
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- In article <ERIC.93Jan22131241@iceland.telebit.com>, Eric Smith writes:
-
- > >>On Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:49:22 GMT, jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) said:
- > > Can active terminators be used with SCSI-I devices? Are they
- > > available in plug in form (50 IDC or Centronix connectors) now?
- > > Where?
- >
- > I've seen plug-in active terminators in both IDC and CHAMP (so-called
- > Centronics) connector form. I don't know where to get them.
- >
- > >>On Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:44:33 GMT, mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy) said:
- > > Sorry, I just started following this thread. What is active
- > > termination?
- >
- > An active terminator actually has one or more voltage regulators to produce
- > the termination voltage, rather than using resistor voltage dividers.
- >
- > This is a passive terminator:
- >
- >
- > TERMPWR ------/\/\/\/------+------/\/\/\/----- GND
- > |
- > |
- > SCSI signal
- >
- > Notice that the termination voltage is varies with the voltage on the
- > TERMPWR line. One voltage divider (two resistors) is used for each SCSI
- > signal.
- >
- >
- > An active terminator looks more like this (supply filter caps omitted):
- >
- > +-----------+
- > TERMPWR -----| in out |------+------/\/\/\/-------SCSI signal
- > | gnd | |
- > +-----------+ |
- > | +------/\/\/\/-------SCSI signal
- > | |
- > GND ---------------+ |
- > +------/\/\/\/-------SCSI signal
- > |
- > etc.
- >
- > Assuming that the TERMPWR voltage doesn't drop below the desired termination
- > voltage (plus the regulator's minimum drop), the SCSI signals will always
- > be terminated to the correct voltage level.
- >
- > Several vendors have started making SCSI active terminator chips, which
- > contain the regulator and the resistors; Motorola is among them.
- >
- > In other SCSI chip news, several vendors including TI now make chips with nine
- > RS-422 transceivers for use with differential SCSI. These replace nine 75176
- > type parts.
-
- So, this could be used safely on a SCSI-I bus?
-
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- Jim Pritchett
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