internal scsi termination 50 pin/68pin problem

[Derick Centeno]

Although I follow the general discussion of what your complaint is I
thought suggesting a different approach entirely might be a bit
faster...if you can afford to do it.  Why not just connect your scsi
such that the system reads it as an IDE drive?  I did that years ago
with my G3 minitower and haven't looked back since.  Here is one link
where you can get more information as well as a list of PCI card which
do this with different scsi devices.  You might be surprised how easy it
is to go this route and forget about what terminates where, and move on:

http://www.macsense.com.au/apple_mac_pc_if_cards.htm

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 22:52, paynito wrote:
> the quantum drive is an internal
> (ultra 3= scsi 2=68 pin)
> while my pmac 9500 
> seems built for narrow scsi 1
> the sys original hdd is of course
> terminated and seems to have no option
> to turn off termination
> i.e. i can't take an 8100 hdd
> and daisy chain it inside the 9500
> --
> are you saying to
> get a 25 pin passive terminator, connect
> it to the outside of my box and this
> will provide termination to a drive on
> the internal scsi chain?
> --
> it seemed to me like the apple cdrom
> was terminating itself, the apple hdd
> was terminating itself and the external
> hdd was then being terminated by an active
> connector, like there were 3 different chains
> --
> i just thought if the apple drive was
> terminated that placing the quantum drive
> one connector above the apple drive
> would have it on a terminated chain
> but drive setup doesn't see it
> --
> thanks to anyone who can provide
> some scsi advice
> -brandon
> 
> 
> >> hey sloopy i have a quantum atlas v
> >> with no onboard termination
> >> for my 9500/132 sonnet g4/1mb
> >> really want to make this drive work
> >> my ydl 3.01 is on external scsi that crashes all the time
> >> any ideas
> >> something called a terminator cable?
> >> 
> >> -brandon
> > you need a terminator, an external one, you can find them on the net for
> > $3-25US try and find one on the cheaper side and put it on there...
> > preferably a 'passthrough' terminator, dont get an active terminator...
> > 
> > sloopy.
> 
> 
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