Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:20:24 -0400 From: Cat Okita <cat@ghost.uunet.ca> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: davidg@Root.COM, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960424101816.5667W-100000@ghost.uunet.ca> In-Reply-To: <199604240832.BAA04088@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > I would disagree with that, most people use an external terminator on > an external chain. Turning terminators on inside of external scsi > enclosures is a no no in my book, it often leads to multiple termination > when someone not so informed adds something to a chain. Or middle > termination with a floating end when a chain gets swapped around. I'll second that one - I've had some really unpleasant times trying to find out which device *thinks* that it's terminated, if it's in the case, or on the drive. External termination is right out in front of your eyes. > With the advent of the SCSI PnP spec this and other defaults are rapidly > changing, the SCSI PnP spec requires that drives ship with no termination > enabled, the use of on drive termination is verboten, you are suppose to > use cable end terminators both internally and externally. I don't seem > to recally anything about term power though :-(. Being overly used to the world of unix-designed machines (ie: sun, dec...), it was a really nasty shock to discover that PC's *normally* terminate on the drives... cheers! cat
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