On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:47:41PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 15 September 2002 17:44, Jason Thomas wrote:
> >Okay here are the details.
> >
> >
> >Controller:
> >00:09.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W
> >
> >The Tape Drive:
> >Its a HP dat40x6i Autoloader. C5713A and connects directly to the
> > 68 pin cable.
> >
> >The hard drives are seagate barracuda's and as far as I know have
> > no built in termination.
> 
> Ahh, but they do.  Its an "active" termination when its enabled, 
> which is via jumper placement on the drive.  You'll have to slide 
> the drives out of the rails to see the jumper tables printed on the 
> top and the jumper locations are sometimes on the front edge of the 
> drive, and sometimes on the bottom, very occasionally on the rear 
> adjacent to the header socket.
> 
> Is the tape the last device on the cable, and connected to the last 
> connector?

controller ----- 50 pin cable ---- terminator of some sort.
   |
   68pin cable
   |
   hdd
   |
   tape
   |
   hdd
   |
   hdd
   |
   active term

cable is about 1M long.