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Emax 2 scanning SCSI ID's - solution.

Emax 2 scanning SCSI ID's - solution.

2013-06-13 by Ted Summers

My Emax 2 started doing this some time ago, so I finally decided to investigate this further.

what I found was that while my internal flash drive had termination on it, for whatever reason, it wasn't "good enough".
I removed the termination jumpers (term pwr and termination), then changed my cable to a 2 device cable.
On the last connector I added an ACTIVE terminator, and the scanning stopped, it booted from the SCSI immediately.

Just thought people would like to know what I found on this issue.

Regards,
Ted

Re: [emax] Emax 2 scanning SCSI ID's - solution.

2013-06-13 by Scott Stanley

Nice catch Ted!  Could you please elaborate on how you added the active terminator?  I am not familiar with how to add termination on an internal SCSI cable without a device that has this option.

Thanks,

-Scott

On 2013-06-13, at 12:34 AM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:

> My Emax 2 started doing this some time ago, so I finally decided to investigate this further.
> 
> what I found was that while my internal flash drive had termination on it, for whatever reason, it wasn't "good enough".
> I removed the termination jumpers (term pwr and termination), then changed my cable to a 2 device cable.
> On the last connector I added an ACTIVE terminator, and the scanning stopped, it booted from the SCSI immediately.
> 
> Just thought people would like to know what I found on this issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Ted
> 
> 


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Re: [emax] Emax 2 scanning SCSI ID's - solution.

2013-06-13 by Ted Summers

i changed the cable to a cable that has 1 more connector than I have devices (in this case, the cable has 3 connectors - 1 end to the board. middle to the device, other end, put on the terminator).

The terminator I used is similar to the following:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IDC50-Male-Single-Ended-Active-SCSI-Terminator-/171055829136?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item27d3b8d090


-T


On Jun 12, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Scott Stanley wrote:

Nice catch Ted! Could you please elaborate on how you added the active terminator? I am not familiar with how to add termination on an internal SCSI cable without a device that has this option.

Thanks,

-Scott

On 2013-06-13, at 12:34 AM, Ted Summers <djtbs1@...> wrote:

> My Emax 2 started doing this some time ago, so I finally decided to investigate this further.
> 
> what I found was that while my internal flash drive had termination on it, for whatever reason, it wasn't "good enough".
> I removed the termination jumpers (term pwr and termination), then changed my cable to a 2 device cable.
> On the last connector I added an ACTIVE terminator, and the scanning stopped, it booted from the SCSI immediately.
> 
> Just thought people would like to know what I found on this issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Ted
> 
> 

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