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From: david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: TERMINATION ON EXTERNAL TAPE DRIVE
Keywords: SCSI, TERMINATION
Message-ID: <38@talgras.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 22:23:47 GMT
References: <708@camco.Celestial.COM>
Reply-To: david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tallgrass Technologies Inc.
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In article <708@camco.Celestial.COM> bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
> [stuff deleted]
>
>Can I get away with removing the terminator from the tape drive
>so that there are only two terminators in the system?  I don't
>whan to have to take the system apart to R&R terminators from the
>1542 every time I need to use the tape.
>
The terminators must be at the end of the chains.  You might be able to
buy and external scsi terminator and plug it in when the tape drive was
removed.

Warning.  Don't go plugging and unplugging these cables while the system
is powwered on.

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