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From: paul@ppgbms (Paul Evan Matz)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Sun SCSI termination
Summary: Chris is definitely right about SS1+ TERMPWR;  Sorry for the misinfo!
Keywords: TERMPWR Termination
Message-ID: <36147@ppgbms.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 90 15:18:38 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.011541.6424@rice.edu> <36040@ppgbms.UUCP> <1990Aug22.170552.17671@com50.c2s.mn.org>
Reply-To: paul@ppgbms.UUCP (Paul Evan Matz)
Organization: PPG Biomedical Sys., Pleasantville, NY.
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In article <1990Aug22.170552.17671@com50.c2s.mn.org> chris@com50.c2s.mn.org (Chris Johnson) writes:
>
>Uh, well now this is completely contrary to my experience with the 
>Sparcstation 1/1+.  They both have 125V/2A FUSES on the the TERMPWR
>lead, and provide nominal +5V.  Either that, or my multimeter was lying.

Sorry for broadcasting wrong information.  Chris is right about the
SS1 & 1+.  Just went into the lab to checked it out, and it seems
his multimeter is right on.  (Open mouth, insert foot...)

I feel quite silly about this.  The reason I thought this about the SS was
due to checking a VERY old SS1 that we borrowed from our sales office for
evaluation 6 months ago.  I could have botched it when checking TERMPWR, 
but I was convinced there was no +5V present.  Anyone out there have a 
really old original SS1 who might have noticed this?

Actually I'm quite happy about the outcome of this, since we do use an
external terminator;  Now, at least, we don't have to decide which
device is the one which should be jumpered to source TERMPWR.

Again, let me apologize for the slanderous comments.
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