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From: minsky@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Minsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: When/where to terminate SCSI
Message-ID: <4990@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Jan 91 23:40:20 GMT
References: <1170009@hp-vcd.HP.COM> <1991Jan22.222417.27735@convex.com>
Reply-To: minsky@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1991Jan22.222417.27735@convex.com> woods@convex.com (Darrin Woods) writes:
>In article <1170009@hp-vcd.HP.COM> willa@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Will Allen) writes:
>>When and where should I use SCSI terminators?  Currently, I have a IIfx and an
>>Apple CD ROM.  It seems to work fine now (I know, don't fix it if it's not
>>broken), but enquiring minds want to know.
>>
>You summed it up perfectly, and it also answers your question.
>If it works, don't futz with it.

Well, how do you know if it works?  I have three disks out there on
that chain from my IIfx.  They *seem* to work.  Except that when I use
GOFER (DA), which searches disks rather fast, it screws up on one of
those disks.  Worked OK on the MacII.  Could it be due to marginal
terminator performance?