Additional Termination Information - TYAN S1837 User Manual

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STEP 2: Connect the other end of the cable to a SCSI connector on the
back of an external peripheral. If you are installing only one external
peripheral, terminate the peripheral and skip to Step 4.
STEP 3: Connect other external peripherals by connecting each peripheral
to the previous one until all peripherals are connected. The peripheral at
the end of the chain must be the only external peripheral terminated.
Terminate SCSI
Peripheral
STEP 4: Connect all power cables to the external peripherals.

4. Additional Termination Information

The last physical device on the end of each SCSI bus cable must be termi-
nated. Termination must be disabled for all other devices in the middle of the
cables. Ultra2 SCSI peripherals do not have built-in termination, but Ultra and
Fast/Wide devices do have termination that must be checked. For more
information refer to the owners manuals for each SCSI device.
The host adapter will automatically enable or disable termination as necessary.
When installed in multiple computer configurations, i.e. clusters, you can force
the motherboard to enable termination even when power to the computer is
OFF. This would enable the other computers in the cluster to continue to
operate the shared SCSI devices even when the computer
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