Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: What's wrong with my hard drive
Message-ID: <1991May6.010943.5215@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <1991May4.015842.11339@utstat.uucp> <48477@ut-emx.uucp> <52478@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 01:09:43 GMT

In article <52478@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
>In article <48477@ut-emx.uucp> daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang) 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).
>>
>>Is this for the Apple SCSI card only, or for all SCSIs in general? I
>
>Sorry, I thought my capitalization implied that I was speaking only of the
>Apple products (the rev. C card and the High-Speed card).  I can't and won't
>speak for other SCSI cards because I have no clues about their workings.
 
>============================================================================
>Matt Deatherage, Developer Technical  | The opinions expressed herein are
>Support, Apple Computer, Inc.         | not those of Apple Computer, and
>Personal mail only, please.  Thanks.  | shame on you for thinking otherwise.
>============================================================================

Well I am also speaking only of Apple products as well. Since there 
appears to be some confusion here, perhaps we should clarify the
setup. ROM03, High-Speed(Apple) SCSI card and a hard drive that is
NOT internally terminated. Now, Todd has indicated that one should
not use more than 2 terminators and that the High-Speed SCSI card
has a built in terminator. So, does the High-Speed card have a built
in terminator? Assuming it does, and that there is only one hard
drive connected to it( which is not internally terminated) are you
saying that one should not put a terminator( or need not) on the
hard drive? Now the Rev C card does not have a terminator, so why
shouldn't one need 2 terminators? 

Bottom line: should I remove the terminator from my drive or not!?

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
[my opinions,...]