Subject: Re: Obscure hardware of the day...
To: Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com>
From: Phil Knaack <flipk@idea.exnet.iastate.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/13/1997 18:31:12
 
>I recently picked up a couple of SCSI CD-ROM drives.  They are unterminated
>(nor unterminable).  When a terminator is applied to the end of the SCSI
>chain, and they are probed by a 1542, produce an ID string of
><005><005>...  

>When properly terminated and used with a 1522, they work adequately.

	I have a CDROM which does the same thing, on a 1542CF.

	You need to disable one or both of parity and disconnect. At 
least this CDROM of mine doesn't work with either of those features.

	(Of course, the hit the bandwidth to the other disks takes when you
disable disconnect and start accessing a single-spin CDROM drive is 
enormous, thus I got me a spare 1520 just for the drive. And of course,
I don't do anything 'real' with it.  That's what the 12x is for. :)

Cheers,
Phil
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Phillip F Knaack
Systems Administrator, Information Development for Extension Audiences (IDEA)
Iowa State University Extension