scsi tape curiousity

[David Bear]

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 11:43:48PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (May 27), David Bear said:
> > I called the cybernetics people (maker of the tape unit) and their
> > recommendation was to put the tape unit on a separate scsi controller
> > from the hard drives.  I didn't want to do this since but did anyway.
> > It seems to have fixed the problem.  I can now use the tape unit.  The
> > question is
> > 
> 
> Most likely bad termination.  Make sure all the cables are seated well,
> make sure you're got active terminators, and make sure that if all your
> devices are LVD, you have LVD terminators.

so the guy from cybernetics was feeding me BS?  ie you can safely run
tapes on hard drives on the same scsi chain?  

I think all drives are lvd AND I know I have an active lvd terminator
-- it cost me $30!  But, I do have cdrom ron the 50 pin bus.  It is
terminated using the cdrom internal terminator.  I wonder...


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