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Re: Adapting SCSI drives
« on: July 11, 2011, 08:58:03 PM »
Yup, you can do that. Just be sure to terminate the last drive in the chain and give each drive it's own ID with the jumpers on the drives circuit board.
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Re: Adapting SCSI drives
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2011, 10:17:24 PM »
Quote from: Heiroglyph;649107
After thinking about it, are you sure I won't need to unterminate the controller, then put a 68pin active terminator on both ends of the cable with drives and controller in the middle?
 
I have no idea if this adapter terminates the extra pins, but I severely doubt it.
 
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The adapter(s) (connector adapters) shouldn't even come into play. If I understand you right, your going from a single SCSI drive to multiple drives using a single controller? When using a single drive it doesn't matter where the terminator is (controller or drive). But with multiple drives the controller has to be at the header end and the terminator at the last drive. Set each SCSI id on each of the drives themselves. Check here at Dave's SCSI school...
 
http://www.tracezero.net/SCSI/basics.php
« Last Edit: July 11, 2011, 10:21:40 PM by gizmo350 »
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A1200: 2MB Chip, 64MB Fast, 4GBCF, GVP Typhoon 030 @40MHz w/FPU, Subway USB, EasyNet Ethernet, Indi AGA MKI, FastATA MK-IV, Internal Slim CD/DVD-RW, WB3.5

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