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From: alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with my hard drive
Message-ID: <1991May5.004920.7281@nevada.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 00:49:20 GMT
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In article <1991May4.015842.11339@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <52411@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>>When using a High-Speed card, you need a terminator at the end of the chain
>>(or no terminators if you only have one device).
>Hmm...what if you have only one device( a hard drive) and you use a
>terminator with the High-Speed card? Can it harm anything?

Depends on whether your HD is internally terminated.  Most SCSI
mechanisms are terminated at the factory; the people who turn these
bare mechanisms into finished drives with cases, connectors, etc.
usually remove these terminator packs from the mechanisms.

If you built your own drive (like I did), you shouldn't need to add
another terminator as the HD's terminator packs hold down one end of
the chain while the DMA SCSI card holds down the other end.  If you
bought a finished drive (from Chinook, QC, or someone like that),
you'll need to stick a terminator on one of the drive's connectors.

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