From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Nov 28 14:00:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA11607 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA11599 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:00:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@diamond.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.xtalwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA01359; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:59:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:59:54 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@germanium.xtalwind.net To: David Greenman cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 and FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <199711282006.MAA19602@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------