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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: What's wrong with my hard drive
Message-ID: <1991May6.081109.14843@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 08:11:09 GMT
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Arrgghh, I hate to do this. No hard feelings, Matt; I'm also glad to see you
back on the net.

mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:

>philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>>Bottom line: should I remove the terminator from my drive or not!?

>Yes.  I said this before, I still mean it.

Matt, he said that his drive doesn't have internal termination -- if he
removes it, one end of the cable won't be terminated at all. Sure,
it will probably still work, but the SCSI spec explicitly states that
both ends should be terminated.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu