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Shannon Jacobs wrote in message <7gkj59$a0e$1@tipgw2.t-kougei.ac.jp>...
>Well, it's been an interesting thread already, but I'm feeling a lot of
heat
>without seeing much light so far....  But I'll try to read through some of
>the new FAQs which have been referenced.
>
>
><snip>
>>Both physical ends, and only the ends, of the cable must be terminated,
>>and any devices between the two ends must have termination disabled.
>
>That's what I thought, but...  Right now it continues to work best with NO
>terminator on the scanner.

Are you sure that your scanner does not have auto termination?

> I vaguely think this proves the scanner must
>have internal termination of some kind,


That's the implication but you should be able to find info on that in the
scanners specs/documentation.

> though I see no way to disable it.
>So why did they provide the passive terminator in the first place?


That implies even more stringly that the scanner does NOT have internal
termination,  automatic or otherwise.

  Beats
>me.
>
>I'm also concerned about the fact that the passive terminator is the 25-pin
>type.  However, all the cables are 50-wire and the scanner is at the end,
>connected to a normal cable.  Someone in another post suggested it was a
Mac
>scanner, but even though some of the new Macs have PCI bus slots, I'm
pretty
>sure there is no Mac software here, and that this is intended for use with
>Windows 9x.
>
>
><snip>
>>As far as the scanner locking up your system, that's caused by using a
>>non-busmastering SCSI card.  You say you're not using the card that
>>came with the scanner, so what card are you using?  An Adaptec 2906
>>or 2902E (or similar busmastering card) should fix the problem.
>
>The SCSI card I'm actually using is a PC card type.  It's a Japanese brand,
>so this probably isn't going to do much good, but on the card it says:
>Logitec LPM-SCSI2E SCSI-2 Card UltraSMIT.  This is the card that came with
>the active terminator (which I'm not using).  But I think that this implies
>it is supposed to be a faster and newer SCSI interface than the one that
>came with the scanner,


That doesn't follow.

> though I don't know how to find out about the bus
>mastering.


That very likely has nothing to do with the problems.

What exactly does your SCSI chain look like?