10 Sep
2012
10 Sep
'12
8:33 p.m.
[IDE] actually DID need terminators...
I'm
not sure what meaning of "need" this is, when, out of all the
IDE-using systems I've seen, I can't recall even one that had
terminators. My point being that while there may not be resistor
packs for the
user to fit/remove (as with SCSI and 5.25" floppy drives) ,there may
well be 'rather too high' termination resisotrs [...]
There may be, for all I know. I was speaking of `terminator' as a
separate physical object, not just anything with a similar electrical
effect. I'd use the same terminology even for (eg) SCSI; "no, there's
no terminator because I enabled on-disk termination on that drive" is a
sensical statement, IMO - and, in this case, the context (users seeing
IDE as not needing those pesky terminators) makes that interpretation
even more reasonable, I think.
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