Subject: Re: 300MHz beige G3 questions
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Walther <trag@io.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/08/2002 02:41:37
At 22:54 -0600 12/07/2002, Andy Ball wrote:
> JW> The SCSI bus in PowerSurge which appears as SCSI Bus 1
> > is controlled by the AMD 79C950 chip (CURIO Chip).
> > This bus has both an internal 50 pin IDC connector and
> > an external DB25 connector. Both these connectors are
> > on the same bus. There is circuitry to autodetect
> > whether termination is needed at the motherboard...
>
>That's a nice touch, since termination is something that
>people seem to get wrong.
The user still needs to terminate the ends of his internal and/or
external SCSI chains, but it does save the user from ever installing
a terminator right at the motherboard.
Jeff Walther