Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:01:19 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm guessing that either a) the external disk was terminated inside the box somehow or b) it was indeed unterminated, but your grandfather got lucky in that it did not cause noticable problems.
So I got lucky on a daily basis for *ten years*? And then, coincidentally, the day I moved it to the Classic II my luck ran out? :)
IMO, SCSI has a reputation as "voodoo" not because it doesn't work the way it is meant to, but because it sometimes works when it shouldn't.
The rules for configuring SCSI are mildly complex. Often a person will misconfigure a SCSI bus but the devices work properly on the bus anyway because there's a certain amount of slack in the system. Then, one day, the misconfigured system stops working and the user takes comfort in the idea of SCSI voodoo, when it really should never have worked at all.
That's a bit oversimplified as there are very rare instances when a properly configured SCSI chain does not function, and on our very old machines, we are working back at the edges of a formal SCSI specification when hardware may or may not have followed the formal specs.
But SCSI mostly works as advertised.
Jeff Walther
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