From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 24 07:21:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA17441 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.uunet.ca (ghost.uunet.ca [142.77.1.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA17434 Wed, 24 Apr 1996 07:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ghost.uunet.ca id <52814-3053>; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:20:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 10:20:24 -0400 From: Cat Okita To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: davidg@Root.COM, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intelligent Debugging Tools... In-Reply-To: <199604240832.BAA04088@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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