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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (9221)11/12/1999 3:19:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul  Read Replies (3) of 14778
 
There may be another option. You could put the CDROM on the same chain as the harddrive. I recall seeing an adapter in your cable link that addressed termination issues with mixed pin configurations. If you go from 68 to 50 pins the 'missing' 18 pins have to be terminated. I believe the 18 pins (or fraction thereof) are terminated at the adapter and the rest would be terminated (in your case) at the CDROM. In this case you would remove termination from the harddrive and leave termination enabled on the CDROM.

I do not know if this would effect performance. Mixing SCSI speeds on the same chain is sometimes not recommended. I do not know enough about it to say one way or the other.

Then you could go directly to the in/out connector with a shorter internal ribbon cable.

This may..not sure here either..allow you to disconnect the Jaz drive without having to crack the case and change termination on an internal device.

Zeuspaul
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