Tarquin Mills makes some magical things to make me read } Tony Firshman wrote: } > ... but I find very few people think properly about termination. } > Unfortunately a simple scsi system will work (up to a point) with wrong } > termination (much like IDE). } > } > .... and SATA (serial IDE) is already here giving the possibility of } > chaining IDE devices. } > } > I assume, Nasta, it is in no way compatible with qubide. } } Yesterday while in Maplin I saw a Serial-ATA to Ultra-ATA converter for } few pounds, I do not know if that would work.
Nope. It is to use a Serial-Ata controler with a Ultra-Ata disk. (because new Motherboard are coming with Sata, whereas Sata disks are still rare... and expensive...) } } > There is a similar problem on the QL network. There will always be two } > unused network sockets and they should be automagically terminated (330R } > I think). Unfortunately the crummy Sinclair sockets often don't. A 330R } > soldered in a jack plug does the trick - and did for Phoebus earlier. } } Would be possible to make an external terminator that plugs in, rather } than altering the QL. That exactly what he described! Take a small male jack mono-plug, and solder a 330 Ohm resistor between its hidden extremities. Then plug that jack in the QL-net port!
