>The fact that there are two buses is relatively transparent to the
>user, at least with respect to termination. If you applied proper
>termination to your 9600 as if it were a single bus, the result is
>correct for both buses.
>
>The only time when you really need to consider the dual bus structure
>is when deciding where to put a hard drive and when setting SCSI IDs.
>Hard drive performance will be dramatically better on the Fast,
>internal bus (unless using old clunkers). And, you can set more than
>one device to ID 3, for example, provided one is internal and the other
>external.
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One thing I do that no one else has mentioned.....I run a
SCSI cable up through the opening in the bottom of the 9600 upper
hinged compartment and plug it into an internal SCSI CD burner. I
started doing this in the early days when CD burners sometimes made
coasters if they were on a chain with other devices. I run my CD
burners on their own bus and never get coasters. May be overkill,
but that is how I have it set up.
The discussion on terminating the internal and external
busses has been excellent and the paragraph at the beginning of this
message is a good summary. It's simple. Just treat them as separate
busses.
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