19 Mar
2013
19 Mar
'13
3:23 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Tony Duell wrote:
WHile I agree that electrically the terminator should
be in the last
deive on the cable (furthest for mthe controller), has anybody ever had a
problem with it being in the 'wrong' drive on a fairly short ribbon cable
(as here)? That is, you ahve one termination resistor pack in the drive
enarest to the cotnrolelr and a 6" or so 'stub' linking to the second
drive.
As I said, electrically it's the wrong thing to do, but I've
(accidentlaly) done it a few times and the machine has had no problems.
Could incorrect termination account for inability to format "360K"
diskettes as "720K"? :-)
It would s'posedly decrease reliability, but ON 5.25" DRIVES, it doesn't
seem to affect it enough to keep it from working.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com