> > One device on the chain actually has to provide power to the external
> > terminators. The "TERMPWR to bus" provided by the scsi controller is not
>
>so, TERMPWR is useless without external terminators?

No, there are usually two jumpers on the drive relating to TERMPWR.

One is "TERMPWR to drive", which means it will power it's own internal 
termination. Since you are not using the drive's internal termination, this 
should be off.

The other is "TERMPWR to bus", which means the drive will provide TERMPWR to 
the *entire* SCSI chain. Normally you don't have to worry about this, the 
scsi controller is usually set up to do it. But in this case I have found 
that the IIci's onboard controller isn't consistent enough to trust it 
powering the "TERMPWR to bus".

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