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Re: Adding SCSI devices to Amiga 3000

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From: Wintermute
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 07:39
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Someone impersonating Gregg Schoenberger (ursoid@netcom.com) wrote:
: 	The terminators are there to impedance-match the scsi bus. By
: adding another device you changed the load and the signal bounced around
: like a love-sick jackrabbit.

But wait, why does it do this when everything is properly terminated?  
The non-working configuration is: Ribbon cable goes from controller to 
unterminated device 0 (Quantum) and then from Quantum to properly 
terminated device 5 or 6.  This still doesn't explain why I get this.

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From: astuart@netcom.com (Wintermute)
Subject: Re: Adding SCSI devices to Amiga 3000
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