[filmscanners] RE: Initialization problem with Polaroid SprintScan 4000

["Laurie@advancenet.net" <laurie@advancenet.net>]

I may be wrong about this (especially with regard to your scanner); but I
believe that this refers to the internal termination but SCSI chains require
termination at both ends of the chain.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
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> ppatton@bgnet.bgsu.edu
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 2:16 PM
> To: laurie@advancenet.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Initialization problem with Polaroid
> SprintScan 4000
>
>
> >remove and replace the SCSI terminator block. If the scanner is
> chained
> >with other SCSI devices, remake the connections at all of them.
> Trying a
> >different terminator will also be worthwhile.
> >
>
> Tony-
> Thanks for your advice.  I have some questions about the SCSI
> terminator block.  My SS4000 has two ports in the back.  One is a
> 50 pin SCSI connector through which the scanner is connected to
> the SCSI card in my computer.  The other port is a 25 pin SCSI
> port and has nothing connected to it, and so far as I can
> remember, never has.  Next to this second port is a switch marked
> "SCSI termination on/off".  Am I correct in my assumption that so
> long as this switch is turned on, the scanner is internally
> terminated and no terminator block is needed?  The scanner
> documentation makes no reference to a terminator block, and
> simply says to turn termination on when the device is at the end
> of a SCSI chain.
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