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- From: d87mt@efd.lth.se (Magnus Thelander)
- Subject: Re: strange default Termination on GVP Series II
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.191119.6365@lth.se>
- Keywords: amiga SCSI termination hardware
- Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server)
- Reply-To: d87mt@efd.lth.se (Magnus Thelander)
- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
- References: <DGILBERT.92Aug11155807@aeshq.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:11:19 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <DGILBERT.92Aug11155807@aeshq.uucp> dgilbert@aeshq.uucp (David Gilbert) writes:
- > Anyways, the manual with the Series II says that all terminators
- >are removed by GVP at the factory. I have verified that the Quantum
- >is not terminated. This means that if the Benrouli drive is detached,
- >there are no terminators on the SCSI system (that I can find).
- >Additionally, if I add an external terminator to the SCSI bus, it
- >locks up.
- >
- > Now, the benrouli drive has terminators on it, and they work in
- >place, but I was under the impression that both ends of the SCSI bus
- >were to be terminated. What gives?
-
- One end of the bus is probably terminated on the hostdapater's PCB.
- This was the case with my GVP series II HC+8 and my GVP G-Force. Un-
- fortunately they are soldered in, so if you want, to use both the in-
- ternal and external connectors, you'll have to have them desoldered.
-
- Magnus
-