Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:34:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> To: Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.ml.org> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>, aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Atalla, Mauro J." <mjatalla@MIT.EDU>, Juergen Hammelmann <juergen@tunix.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>, Lutz Vieweg <lkv@isg.de>, Chen Chi Ming Hubert <cmh_chen@MIT.EDU>, Tom Leidy <ogre@ptd.net> Subject: Re: Dell 410 Workstations and Asus Motherboard systems Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980723103237.13786M-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9807221915290.7516-100000@osiris.ml.org>
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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > > > > The only options I see in the BIOS are to either enable or disable > > termination on the controller. Given that it is a single ended > > controller, I'm not sure why they have the disable option (so somebody > > can "break" their system?;-). > > > > Sometimes the HA will be in the middle of the ribbon: > > <|-----------|-----------|--------|----------------|> > terminator drive host drive terminator > pack adaptor pack Ah, you mean that they have a ribbon that plugs into the single connector in the middle, but has two ends? Never seen or used such a beast, but that very well may be it. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@phy.duke.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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