On (04 May 96) Paul Edwards wrote to Rod Speed...



 PE> Bloody hell.  Installing the SCSI into my Amiga was something

 PE> else!  I had to stuff around with resistor terminators or

 PE> something.  I didn't have documentation for my Conner, but I

 PE> did have documentation for my Seagate.  It had a diagram telling

 PE> me the resistors I needed to take out.  Now there's a good joke,

 PE> it was identifying some chips that looked like they might be

 PE> soldered on!  Anyway, there were 3 similar things on the Conner

 PE> (60 meg), so I levered them out.  Haven't these people ever heard

 PE> of jumpers?  Maybe they should read their own manuals!  I

 PE> jumpered the seagate to make it drive 1, stealing a jumper from

 PE> the conner which looked like it wasn't doing anything.



scsi will usually work as long as there are terminators near the ends of

the bus. for most installations, terminators on the controller and one

of the drives not necissarily the end one will work as long as the cable

isn't too long. i've got one terminator on the scanner connected to the

external connector on the controller by a 1.5 metre cable, the internal

connector goes via about 20cm of ribbon cable to the first drive which

is terminated, then via about 30cm of the same ribbon cable to the

second drive which is not. t'aint right and may not work in all

circumstances, but i've had no trouble.



                        Keith



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