Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:59:54 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 and FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128165645.1339A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <199711282006.MAA19602@implode.root.com>
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, David Greenman wrote: > That would terminate the narrow portion in the middle of the cable for one > end of the termination. Termination needs to be at the physical end of the > cable in order for it to work correctly. For people who need to put a narrow > drive on a wide SCSI bus, there are available special wide->narrow converters > that provide termination for the upper data bits - they're quite a bit more > expensive, however. I use two cables, a narrow on the narrow connector and a wide on the wide. The ends of each cable becomes the end of the narrow chain, with the controller in the middle, and the high bit end of the wide and the controller form the ends of the wide. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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