>I guess you're up early and I'm up late
>Terry in British Columbia.
I'm in British without the Columbia - in the sticks of the UK mid morning - nice
day too...
>If there are two hard drives specified in a unit's
>configuration, the higher capacity drive should
>be set to ID 0, the other drive should be set to
>ID 1. Since the CD-ROM is terminated, neither
>hard drive should be terminated.
>
>But why, now that I've removed the CD from the center bay on my 660AV,
>can I keep casually plugging various HD's in there, after having set the ID
>correctly but not bothered with termination?
I'm not aware that the size of the drive matters for id or where it is on the
chain - my 8500 has a CD and two 4 gig seagates - the last one terminated and id 0,
but my umax has cdrw id 4 - cd rom id 5 - zip id 2 - 9gig IBM id id 0 (boot 9.1) -
2gig Barracuda id 1 and an IBM 4.5gig at id 6 (boot 9.2 and terminated) in that order
on the cable and it runs flawlessly - still one bay left but it's a difficult one to
fill with special screw fittings.
Drives will still work on an unterminated chain - the data is prone to
corruption/loss though as I understand the voodoo of scsi - a bit like flaky ram -
errors tend to arise along with the occasional freeze or crash.
>Well at least you have the reassurance of knowing
>that your Umax has got Zip :�)
I really must buy a zip disk sometime......and some floppies as my 8500 has a
floppy drive but I don't have any floppies at all - waste of a couple of bays really...
Pete
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