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Originally posted by toddler
adultWire's got it pretty much right on the money.
though usually its 7 thats usually used by
the card, which is a hold over from the days
of 'scsi' what you have now is prolly scsci 3.
scsci used to be centronix connectors, then they went to 'mini' (the 50 pinners) then 68, then all over the place.
50-68 cables are all over the place, but try
for ribbon if these are internal.
termination can be a fun problem, i tend to always terminate, though a vast majority of
consumer level devices will 'auto terminate' for you. usually just by leaving the other cable
off, or by switch. check the manuals well.....
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There really is some talent around here isn't there? Amazing where it pops up.
What somebody said above about many people thinking SCSI sucks is true (them thinking it, not SCSI sucking). Termination is there to prevent signal reflection in the cable. Some of the real high end devices still require active termination to prevent this. The real problem is that many devices work without termination because their interfaces have a high enough resistance themselves, however this throws out the timing fairly often and you get massive degradation in performance and sometimes trouble detecting devices behind these on the chain. Also frequent adapter resets. Add to that the number of people I've seen trying to connect devices in a kind of SCSI 'T Bus' config and it's easy to see why some people think it sucks.
When you get it right there is a night and day difference in performance that nothing else really touches.