5 Apr
2005
5 Apr
'05
4:19 p.m.
Marvin Johnston wrote:
Noo, ST506/ST412 interfaced drives need a terminator too. It's normally a
resistor pack (either DIL or SIL) that is pluged into a socket on the
last drive on the cable.
Most ex-PC drives have it fitted anyway. IIRC, drives from IBM came with
it installed, if you fitted the drive as the second drive in a machine
(which was the one closer to the controller on an IBM twisted hard-drive
cable), you pulled the terminator and sellotaped it to the side of the
drive.
-tony
A terminator is also required at the last drive
in the chain. Assuming
you are using just one drive, not having the terminator installed would
probably cause the drive not to work properly.
Isn't that only a requirement of SCSI drives? I certainly don't have any
terminators on my MFM/RLL drives...