June 01, 1997 03:01 PM
SCSI Termination
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A basic principle of SCSI says that a SCSI bus requires correct electrical termination at both ends in order to function properly. Proper termination ensures that the signal travelling down the SCSI bus doesn't reflect back, a situation that cause a variety of problems including "ghosted" SCSI devices, data errors, and other anomolies. Unfortunately, termination is implemented differently from SCSI device to SCSI device (some use jumpers, some use removable terminating resistor packs, others use...
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