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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (9228)	11/10/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Are you suggesting the loop setup only because you thought my onboard adapter could not disable termination? Because I can go either way in regards to enabling or disabling host adapter termination. My experience has been with ASUS motherboards, which are always terminated. If you can really turn off the motherboard's termination, you could theoretically set it up as a 'T', as long as you terminated whichever device (perhaps your CD ROM drive) was at the end of the internal chain. I once tried to do that on my motherboard & it didn't work. The Adaptec motherboard SCSI bios said "enable/disable/auto" for termination, and when I set it to "disable" and then tried to place the motherboard in the center of a SCSI chain, everything stopped working. In the manual for the motherboard, in contradiction to what it says on the SCSI BIOS screen, it says "the motherboard is always terminated". So I'm just telling you what I've run into; your mileage may of course vary. In theory, any of these SCSI setups should work as long as both ends of the chain are terminated, nothing in the middle is terminated, and the combined cable length is reasonable. Regards, --QwikSand

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