NeXT slab SCSI fault

[Gordon JC Pearce]

On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 09:40 -0400, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> I have an SGI Iris Indigo that behaves in a similar manner iff the 
> external drive has any sort of termination enabled.  Sort of 
> counter-intuitive, but by removing termination from the external drive 
> inclosure it's quite happy.

I have an E-mu ESI-4000 sampler that will not work with SCSI at all
unless the "free" end of the SCSI chain is unterminated.  I thought it
might be something that needed a short cable, but it's happy with 50-pin
SCSI ribbon cables over 6 feet long!

SCSI is voodoo.  SCSI as implemented by musical equipment manufacturers
I can't even begin to describe.

Gordon