From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 28 14:56:10 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA06123 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:56:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from bacchus.eng.umd.edu (bacchus.eng.umd.edu [129.2.94.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA06058 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 14:55:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from espresso.eng.umd.edu (espresso.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.13]) by bacchus.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24299; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:54:56 -0500 (EST) Received: (chuckr@localhost) by espresso.eng.umd.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id RAA06274; Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:54:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 17:54:53 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@espresso.eng.umd.edu To: Michael Smith cc: Peter Wemm , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nec cdrom In-Reply-To: <199512280238.NAA00576@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[ > ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: