Re: SCSI Termination Problems?

[Bill North <north@spso.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

In article <x6wYp6o.bradbuchner@delphi.com>
Brad Buchner, bradbuchner@delphi.com writes:
>I plan on changing the SCSI ID of the 100 meg to 6 once I
get all my files
>transferred, but the problem I'm have is that data get
slightly corrupted.  I
>copied my system files to the first partition on the 100
meg (GS/OS System
>6.01), and there's ends up being several small errors
sometimes.  The number of
>blocks for a file may jump to a ridiculous number (8
point Geneva went from 6
>blocks to over 40,000, then went back to normal after
re-cataloging from
>BASIC.) or file headers get screwed up, or block lists
try to use a
>non-existent block or a block that's already in use.  The
only problem my
>brother could figure out was that maybe terminator power
wasn't being supplied.
>So, how would I check that, or what else might the
problem be?
> 
I encountered this identical seeming problem. In my case
a working solution (whether "correct" or not I don't know,
but it worked) was to add a pass-through terminator between
the CPU/card and the first (non-terminated) drive. With my
High-Speed SCSI i _always_ have the first and last devices
terminated, ignoring whether the card itself is terminated.
The manual claims it is, but I can't find any resistor
looking components on the card.

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