Re: CFFA Status?

[Doug Mitton <doug_mitton@hotmail.x.com>]

ziggy <ziggy@fakedaddress.com> wrote:

>> There's still a potential issue of termination power...
>> Does the RAMFast supply term power unconditionally?
>> 
>> And did you have a disk in the Zip and powered up when the
>> Apple was powered up?  (Obvious, I know, but had to ask.  ;-)
>> 
>> -michael
>> 
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>> 
>> "The wastebasket is our most important design
>> tool--and it is seriously underused."
>
>Yup.. had a disk in there on power-up. 
>
>Powered up the zip first. Then the IIGS.
>
>Tried it with the terminator switch both on, and off.

The other issue (I seem to remember) is with the termination
resistor(s) themselves.  There should only be one on each end of the
chain ... the card itself and the last device.  I seem to remember (in
the deep dark past) buying a SCSI harddrive in a case which had
termination resisitors installed on the drive inside the case.  It
messed things up until I opened the case and physically removed the
two (?) SIP resistor packs.

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