On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 23:03:46 -0700, Jessica Blank composed: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > > > How do I know if I got it right? I wish there was a "scsidiag" program > that would say "Your termination sucks, try this; your SCSI IDs have a > conflict, try this..."
so do i :). > > > > I think on my 8500 the original configuration had the boot drive in the > > middle > > of the bus, the CD drive at one end and the host bus adapter at the other > > end. > > The CD drive was terminated. > > The thing that confuses me is thus: There are several termination options > for the drive I placed at the end of the SCSI chain (read the Web page I > referred to: http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/scsi/st15150n.html ). I > do not know which ones are correct. "Terminate power from drive"? > "Terminate power to SCSI bus"? I know nothing of these things. i think i have mine set to "from SCSI bus". and apparently that's the only setting that will work on a mac (according to a seagate techie i spoke with a little while back). simon
