SCSI terminator on D210

[James Harrington]

I am visiting an HP9000 user in Germany. He has a D210 with 2 internal discs, a DDS2 dat drive and a CD. He has no external devices attached.
The machine appears to be running normally, but I was surprised to find that it does not have a SCSI terminator plugged into the "SCSI Single Ended (8/)16/5" socket on the back.
Is this normal?

[Patrick Wessel · Accepted solution]

That is SCSI: it may work without proper termination, but there is no guarantee
You better put a terminator on the connector. It has to be there!

[James Harrington]

Thanks for your quick response. I will try and buy one!

[John M. Jones, III]

Verify with the user/sys-admin at the site, that the internal drive on the end of the chain wasn't hardware terminated. I found a couple on an army contract that were configured with the drive termination on. It made for some real headaches until we found that out.

[Angus Crome]

Oops, sorry the above from JMJ was my post. I was doing some updates in our general user ID and his name is associated.

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi James,

If you really wanna to avoid future headeck, please plug a terminator.

In some cases, while booting, the FC process could reach a 30 minutes time booting and break with a timeout!!!

Prehaps your friend prefer to avoid that !

Magdi