Beldon on Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:40:21 -0500


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Re: Fwd: Re: [PLUG] SCSI tape question


On Saturday 10 March 2001 20:21, you wrote:
> At 5:43 PM -0500 3/10/01, Beldon wrote:
> >Actually since I posted this I think I figured it out.  The Orb drive is
> >self-terminated; the tape drive is not.
> 
> 	So put the tape first in the chain followed by the Orb, and 
> have the Orb terminated - you should be fine.

Except that I'm not using the Orb on this machine.  I was just using it to 
test the card.

> >It uses one of those 11-pin resitor
> >terminators plugged into a slot on one of the control cards of the tape 
drive
> >itself.  I shall have to scrounge one up (or a reasonable substitute) 
somehow.
> 
> 	I am sure I have a few lying around for all my SCSI devices 
> for my Mac OS machines (we've been doing SCSI for years ;).

Yeah I know.  You MAC guys are sooooooo hip.


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