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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:03:02 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (Hr.Ladavac), scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD support for Adaptec/Buslogic drivers 
Message-ID:  <E0vJ0WE-0001Qi-00@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:54:17 PST." <199610311654.IAA04790@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> 
References:  <199610311654.IAA04790@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>  

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In message <199610311654.IAA04790@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> "Rodney
W. Grimes" writes: 
: They are not all equal, the ``cheap'' ones use passive termination,
: the good ones (ASUS SC-200 and many others) use active termination.

That brings up a question that I've been meaning to ask for a long
time.  Can someone tell me the difference between active and passive
termination, or point me at something that does?  In addition, why
would I want one over the other?

Warner



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