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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is this SCSI problem my drives or my BusLogic 946C ?
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:18:29 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com writes:

> Actually, Digital Equipment in their drive documentation states that _all_
> SCSI devices that can be should be jumpered to _supply_ terminator power
> to the SCSI termination power bus.

> The way I have always set stuff up was to have all devices _obtain_
> termination power from the SCSI bus, and the adapter card to _suppy_
> termination power, that way the terminators are running at the same
> voltage level as the signal lines.

Me too.  I've got too many troubles with other configurations to trust
someone like DEC. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)