I appreciate that clarification. How can you have eight? The
motherboard is 7 and there are only 1-7 right?

Or is 0 one as well?

I wonder where the person that told me keep the HD closest to the
motherboard got that information? I'm pretty sure I've seen that
somewhere before too.

Hmm.

Dave


> 3 is only terminated because it is _physically_ the last device in the
> chain. A proper SCSI chain looks like this:
> 
> [T]-[D]-[D]- [...] -[D]-[T]
> 
> Where [T] is a terminator, and [D] are devices. There can be 8 devices on a
> SCSI bus (16 on later SCSI implementations), and their ID's and physical
> locations in the chain matter not one iota, as long as all devices have
> different SCSI ID's. The controller may be any ID you want, it is only by
> custom that it happens to be 7 on most Macintoshes.
> 
> ,xtG
> .tsooJ
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