[Sunhelp] Quick SCSI question

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: james [mailto:james at foonly.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 11:38 AM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Quick SCSI question
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > Looking at a bunch of different sites that I shop for 
> cables, I don't
> > see any mention of termination on the cables.  Are these cables
> > "special" or do most drives have the ability to terminate 
> just the high
> > bits internally?  
> 
> Most of these cables are designed to hook directly to the 
> host adaptor,
> which terminates both high and low bits.  Assume that a cable doesn't
> terminate unless proven otherwise.

Tonight, I'm feeling that James B. is right, SCSI isn't your friend...  :(
I've either got a termination problem, or a bad drive.  In an attempt to
rule out termination, is there an easy way (or any way at all) to determine
if an adapter terminates the high bits of the SCSI bus?  I've got a Digital
Multi-meter handy, but I don't know how to check out termination.
Alternatively, is there a way to test if an adapter terminates by hooking it
to a SCSI bus and drives?  I've used this one with an older SCSI CD-ROM, but
it fails with a newer CD-ROM (scsi timeouts).  Thanks, and sorry for being
offtopic, but this is the best place for this kind of help.
	Greg