[rescue] SCSI Zip on SGI O2

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Thu Oct 16 15:35:28 CDT 2003


On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:42:02AM -1000, Lom Defer wrote:
> I recently bought a legacy iomega 250 scsi zip drive to hook to my o2.  
> There is a active terminator on the current scsi devices (external disk and 
> floppy disk) connected to the o2.  i plan to add the zip at the end of the 
> chain.  do i still need an active terminator?


YES.  Absolutely and undubitably.  Do NOT rely on the internal
termination in SCSI Zip drives -- it's not reliable.  Try to use it to
terminate the bus, and you WILL have SCSI problems.  I know this from
hard experience.


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