Re: Moving a Focus drive external: termination?

[Matt Jensen <no@spam.com>]

Well, good news and bad news: it isn't "hardwired" to Connor
mechanisms.  But it isn't an SCSI interface, though.  It is a
laptop-type IDE device.

Kris Jones wrote:
> 
> I consider myself fairly SCSI literate, although termination still messes with
> me.
> 
> If I was to pull the 2.5" Conner off of the Focus board and connect a 2.5" IDC
> to 50pin IDC ribbon cable, and then put the cable into a socket with a 25pin
> external apple cludge, I could run SCSI externally, right?
> 
> Or is this card hardwired for only one device, specifically the Conner drive?
> 
> If not, I figure, by most standard conventions, the board itself would have
> termination, and then the drive would be terminated, correct?
> 
> Or would I need to terminate at the beginning and the end of the SCSI chain?
> 
> Basically,
> 1. is the Focus board a standard scsi controller? Can it support 7 devices?
> 2. is their termination on the board, or would I need to put all the termination
> on the chain itself, externally?
> 
> Thanks for any input
> -Kris

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