[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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