Subject: Re: Is it really the disk drive or something else?
To: NetBSD/sparc Discussion List <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/22/1998 11:43:44
[ On Tue, September 22, 1998 at 05:07:26 (-0700), Don Lewis wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Is it really the disk drive or something else?
>
> woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>
> > My recollection is that the internal drives should be terminated. I've
>
> Unterminated is correct for internal SCSI drives in Sun pizza boxes as I
> recall.
Ah, OK. I guess that's why it is critical that they be connected only
with a "stub"-length cable. (A "stub" in SCSI terms is a length of
cable that's short enough not to require termination, and normally you'd
see "stubs" on the bus from the cable to the drive.)
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