Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!midway!chsun1!kusumoto From: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: TERMINATION ON EXTERNAL TAPE DRIVE Keywords: SCSI, TERMINATION Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 91 18:44:57 GMT References: <708@camco.Celestial.COM> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 25 I'm not sure about having a tape drive and hard drive on the same SCSI bus (well, it works on my sparcstation but not on my novell server) but we got one external SCSI terminator which seems that you can plug into a SCSI port and allows you to plug another port on top of it so that if it's being chained through, it's not terminated but if it isn't, it's terminating. (ie: card<=====>SCSI_device<> terminated. ^ terminator card<=====>SCSI_device<><====>SCSI_device[] ^ terminators ^ ^ terminated here.) It's kinda hard to explain if you don't look at it. Think of it as some kind of serial adapter except it's for terminating SCSI buses. This way, you can disconnect the 2nd device without fear not having the SCSI bus being broken (although you're software or computer might disagree :-). Cool idea if you ask me though. Bob -- Bob Kusumoto | I just come from the land of Internet: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu | the sun/ from a war that must Bitnet: kusumoto%chsun1@uchicago[.bitnet] | be won in the name of truth. UUCP: ...!{oddjob,gargoyle}!chsun1!kusumoto | - New Order, "Love Vigilantes"