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From: mjoseph@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Joseph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ST251 Jumpers
Summary: clarification
Keywords: Seagate, Hard Disk, Jumpers, Drive Select
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.174809.13551@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 90 17:48:09 GMT
References: <1312@gold.GVG.TEK.COM> <1462@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <1462@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> Samuel Lam <skl@wimsey.bc.ca> writes:
>
>No.  The "terminating resistor" for the Seagate ST-251 is at the
>bottom of the drive on the circuit board.  If you turn the drive
>over and let its front face away from you and draw an imaginary
>line parallel to the side of the drive and through the spindle-tip,
>it should be somewhere along that line between the spindle-tip
>and the back of the drive.
>

Thanks, Sam.  I should have clarified this in my note.  The 'DONT KNOW'
jumpers should definitely be left open.  There is a separate terminating
resistor pack as described above.

My offer to mail copies of the manual stands.  Email me for requests.

mark joseph
m-joseph@uiuc.edu