Drive Termination for Workgroup Servers

This article describes drive termination for Workgroup Servers and shows what resistors to remove to disable it.
Hard Drive or DAT drives may need to have the termination resistors removed or made inoperative on certain configurations of multiple drive systems or Workgroup Servers. Below is a brief description of termination requirements for the different systems or Workgroup Servers.

Refer to the information below the table for how to disable termination on various drives.

ComputerTermination
660 AV/Centris 660AV
Quadra 610 / Centris 610
Power Macintosh 6100
Workgroup Server 60
Workgroup Server 6150
Hard Drive needs Termination
Macintosh IIVX, II VI
Quadra 650 / Centris 650
Power Macintosh 7100
Hard Drive needs Termination
Quadra 800, and 800 AVLast drive in line needs Termination. Remove termination from all other drives installed, including DAT
Power Macintosh 8100
Workgroup Server 8150
Has two internal cables: 1)Internal/external cable requires that all drives have no termination. Remove termination from all internal drives (termination is on cable)
2)The internal channel cable (max 1 drive only) requires termination
Quadra 900, 950
Workgroup Server 95
Remove termination from all internal drives (termination is on cable).


HP DAT Drive - Remove Term PWR jumper to disable termination.

Conner Drives - Remove resistor packs to disable termination.

Quantum Drives - Remove resistor packs to Disable termination.

IBM Drives - Remove Term PWR jumper to disable termination.

Published Date: Feb 19, 2012