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From: jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Mac SCSI Drive Tale of Woes
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Date: 30 May 90 04:38:45 GMT
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[Huge description of SCSI woes by deboni@fernando.llnl.gov deleted]

Be aware when connecting non-Mac SCSI drives to a Mac that the
Mac does NOT supply termination power.  If the device in question
expects to get its termination power from the SCSI connector,
you will have many potential problems.  One way to test for this
setup is to stick a Mac-specific peripheral at the end of the
SCSI chain.  Since it should be terminated properly (without
relying on the connector's termination power), everything will
work fine.  If you place the non-Mac device at the end of the chain
and things stop working, you might be experiencing the aformentioned
termination power problem.
 
-- Jeff Kuskin, Dartmouth College