29 Jun
2007
29 Jun
'07
5:51 a.m.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 29/06/2007 10:11, Jules Richardson wrote:
Yes, I'm surprised that Openoffice at least didn't come with something - but
then I'm also surprised that Firefox doesn't seem to have the ability either :(
Does anyone happen to have a reference for the termpwr jumpers on a
Seagate ST1480N 425MB SCSI disk?
The only online reference I've found so far
is set out to use the old
DOS font with line drawing characters in it, and nothing I've been
able to find in Firefox (or elsewhere in Linux) has been able to
display it properly :-(
You need to get a copy of the linedrawing TrueType font. There used to
be one on Seagate's pages along with the drive data, and Microsoft have
one that's sometimes supplied with Word. Anyway, to answer the immediate question, the table
means this:
A no jumper on upper/lower pin position 7
jumper between upper and lower position 8
-- drive supplies own termpwr
B jumper between upper and lower pin position 7
no jumper on upper/lower position 8
-- drive supplies termpwr to bus
C no jumper on lower pin position 7 or lower position 8
jumper between upper position 7 and upper position 8
-- bus supplies termpwr to drive
Huzzah - that works. Cube is happy again and now running with a (hopefully)
reliable drive - although it also wanted the external bus connector
terminating, contrary to every Slab setup I've seen.
I'm not sure what NeXT's official docs say on that; I wonder if Slabs
auto-terminate but the Cube doesn't - or maybe all the Slabs I've seen haven't
been set up properly, but it's one of those things that can be 'got away
with' :-)