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#CD-ROM software

    14-May-95 22:00:12
Sb: #197000-#CD-ROM software
Fm: Erik Flom 71204,407
To: Hank Duckman 74357,2623
<< COMPUTER (terminated)->Dev1->Dev2->Dev3 (terminated) < That doesn't seem to fit with the usual "intelligence", i.e. < termination only for the last device of any chain, does it? Ahhh, yes! That _is_ correct, assuming you don't consider the SCSI Controller as a _device_ of its own!! If the SCSI controller card is on one end of the chain, _IT_ must be terminated, just like any other device. The primary reason for termination is to dampen the signal reflection that occurs on each end of the bus – so properly designed SCSI controllers will work best when both ends of the _physical_ bus are terminated. Thanks! Erik Flom