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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (9204)	11/9/1999 1:47:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

It's fine to disable an adapter's termination and have devices on either side of it as long as both ends (and only both ends) are properly terminated. You just turn the termination off in the adapter's BIOS, it's done all the time with adapter cards. However, at least on the ASUS motherboards that I use, you can't do that if the SCSI adapter built into the motherboard. The motherboard adapter is hard-terminated and therefore must be at one end of the chain. When I did it I had no problems. However, I should add that I was using an older PCI SCSI adapter (Adaptec 2940) that had nothing but 50-pin Fast SCSI on it. It didn't have both 50 pin Fast SCSI and 68 pin Ultra-SCSI connectors, as the newer models do; so I can't claim that experience with the current configurations. Regards, --QwikSand