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