Re: Moving a Focus drive external: termination?

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

	There are some constraints as far as which drives will work with the
Focus controller, and in relation to your question I'd say the most
notable of which is the fact that the Focus controller is not a SCSI
controller.  It's IDE.




bp

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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