Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:54:53 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.dialix.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nec cdrom Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951228175035.5692A-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199512280238.NAA00576@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Michael Smith wrote:
> I have no faith whatsoever in NEC's ability to produce SCSI CD units, so
> reading about your problems doesn't surprise much 8)
>
> > I *hate* that drive... If the other NEC drives are like it too, I'll
> > be very reluctant to touch them ever again.
>
> This is my experience.
>
> > BTW: I, too, would dearly love to know what the other jumpers are for.
> > I suspect #5 or #6 is termination enable, but I'm not sure.
>
> My guess is termination enable terminator power to the bus; you can check
> this easily enough with a beep-meter.
(Just back from a couple days off) Well, I want to get this NEC CDR-210
working, it no one tells me that it's Black Death. I'm calling NEC,
maybe they'll tell me about option pins 4-6. Here's the phone numbers I
have:
NEC ....................... Sales & Info .......... 800-632-4636
NEC ....................... T/S ................... 708-860-0335
NEC ....................... Tech Support ..BBS..... 508-635-4706
NEC ....................... Tech Support ..fax..... 708-860-5475
NEC ....................... Tech Support ..faxback. 800-366-0476
NEC ....................... Tech Support ..General. 800-388-8888
This's gonna sound stupid, but I don't know a lot about SCSI; do I want
to have the cdrom actively terminated, if the option pins allow it? I
have an Adaptec 2842, BTW.
Thanks, guys.
>
> > -Peter
>
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