Re: Zip drive not working with High-Speed SCSI. Help!

[lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

ToasterKing (toastjuice@aol.com) wrote:
:      Thanks for everyone's help.  The problem IS that the High-Speed SCSI
: card doesn't supply termination power by itself; it requires at least one
: device on the SCSI chain to provide it, which the Zip doesn't.
:      I've solved the problem by crudely connecting the board of a dead
: hard drive to the end of the SCSI chain.  I've heard there is a simple
: modification I can do to my HS SCSI card to make it supply termination
: power.  It requires soldering a jumper wire from a +5V source on the card
: (or anywhere in the GS, for that matter) to one of the SCSI pins.  If
: anyone has seen this mod or could tell me which SCSI pin to solder the
: jumper to, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know.

There is also a device known as a "passive terminator" which has the 
distinction from an "active terminator" in that the p.t. is a flow-
through connector, whereas an a.t. simply plugs into the hard drive.

An amazing little device, it took Quality Computers about 3 months
to finally diagnose this termination problem (I had a hard drive
with only 1 connector and internal termination).

: Thanks!!

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Yipes, enough with the \040's already!

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