Terminate Exabyte 8200 - manufactured for IBM

[Markus Wender]

Hi all,

I´ve got an old Exabyte 8200 SCSI-Tapedrive manufactured for IBM.
I want to disable the termination of the tape drive and terminate with an
external SCSI-Terminator. But the termination-jumpers are not on the
position as shown in the manual by Exabyte. Does anyone know how to disable
termination there?

Kind regards

Markus

 

[Daniel Tso]

I´ve got an old Exabyte 8200 SCSI-Tapedrive manufactured for IBM.
I want to disable the termination of the tape drive and terminate with an
external SCSI-Terminator. But the termination-jumpers are not on the
position as shown in the manual by Exabyte. Does anyone know how to disable
termination there?

Not sure what jumpers you are talking about.
If I recall correctly, the 8200 drive uses 3 terminator resistor packs
which are inserted roughly above the SCSI connector. They are
SIPs (single inline package). So to disable termination, simply
remove those resistor packs.

 

[Markus Wender]

Not sure what jumpers you are talking about.
If I recall correctly, the 8200 drive uses 3 terminator resistor packs
which are inserted roughly above the SCSI connector. They are
SIPs (single inline package). So to disable termination, simply
remoe those resistor packs.

yeah, that´s right, the documentation from Exabyte tells this...
But there aren´t any SIPs. The SCSI connector is at the top of the board. At
the left of the connector there are three DIP-Switches for ID-Setting and
left from the dip there are some PINs for jumpers (in the following
combination:

PIN 1 3 4
PIN 2 5

So, you see my problem? )