Re: Hard Disk Woes

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <33e1gq$9cd@zircon.cs.uow.edu.au>,
David E A Wilson <david@zircon.cs.uow.edu.au> wrote:

>Note that the SCSI-2 standard states that an Initiator (ie the computer) MUST
>supply term power to the bus while a Target (ie a hard disk) MAY supply term
>power but need not. This may be a problem for Apple // users given the above
>power supply limitations. You just have to be careful when buying SCSI-2 drives
>and ensure that you get one that can supply term power (if it is the only device
>and you have a SCSI card that does not).

I've never noticed anything on any of the SCSI drives I've looked over that
makes the drive supply terminator power. To the contrary, my APS hard disk
case has a wire running from the power supply to one of the pins on one of the 
centronics connectors on the back of the case. Maybe it on the drive on SCSI-2
mechanisms but it's a function of the case on all others it appears.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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