At 09:39 PM -0800 02/06/2003, Terry Graham wrote: >Dan C wrote: > >What's the full model number of the Micropolis? Perhaps we can find >>you some detailed/better info. > >Model 3243 - seems to me I saw 3.9 GB on screen at some point; icon >title maybe? > >Here are the two sites that are still leaving me in the dark: >http://www.groove-trax.de/jumper/h/txt/2544.txt > >http://www.thetechpage.com/cgi-bin/db/db.cgi?displayItem=884 > >What contributes to my confusion is that, of the fourteen pairs of pins, >2 pairs (4 pins) are missing leaving empty holes in the black jumper block. >An actual photo would be excellent as these graph-like layouts >don't seem to line up, numbers to names >not to mention all the mysterious plus' and minus'. > >There are a couple of other two or four pin groupings elsewhere on the >Hd's board as well.
ug. Yea, nasty ascii diagrams. I'm not fond of them either. Try http://www.mm.mtu.edu/drives/micropolis/new/3243Config.html > >Termination is needed to prevent signals from "echoing" off the end >>of the cable. It's the echos overlapping that cause the corruptions. >>Sometimes, when cables are short and data rates are slow, such as on >>an internal SCSI-1 bus, the echo is minimal so things just hum along >>fine. SCSI-2 isn't that tolerant tho... > >That sounds like the end device in a chain is the only one requiring >termination then; isn't that so? Correct. Technically, both ends must be terminated. But since the end attached to the motherboard is already terminated, you can just ignore that one. - Dan. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
