Re: high speed scsi trm pwr mod...

[Sandra Warnken <warnken@mother.com>]

You need to have term power at the end of the chain, not on each device.


On 18 Sep 2000 Amiga2000@bigpond.nospam.com wrote:

> penman@n-o_s-p-a-m-cotse.com wrote:
> 
>    " Multiple devices on a line aren't a problem--matter of fact this is
>    " how the SCSI format was developed, with the idea that multiple items
>    " would be on the chain, and that all would be supplying tem power--
> 
> Yep, thats true....But the scsi system (correct me if I'm wrong) will
> *not* work at all, when *no* devices supply trm pwr?
> 
> This is my problem, I have apple hgh spd scsi card and one drive that does 
> *not* supply trm pwr, and system doesn't work.
> 
> I'll fire up apples scsi utilities later on tonight, to find if the card can 
> be seen or not, or if just the drives can't be seen.
> 
> 
> It seems to work OK though, because when I set the gs to scan it takes ages 
> to boot up, I'm assuming it's the scsi card doing it's bus scanning.
> 
> 
> 
> ch.
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