wcarroll@encore.com (Mr. New Dad) (04/19/91)
From article <41228@cup.portal.com>, by ts@cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith): > > For example, when you remove the parity jumper on a Quantum > drive, the drive stops checking parity, but it always generates > parity. There are three combinations that appear in practice: > > generate and check > > generate but don't check > > don't generate and don't check From SCSI-2 Working Draft Proposal Revision 10b, section 4.6 "SCSI Bus Signals": "Data parity DB(P) shall be odd." If your device does not generate parity then it does not conform to the SCSI spec. Thus there are two combinations and they are: check don't check -- William R. Carroll (Encore Computer Corp., Ft. Lauderdale FL) wcarroll@encore.com uunet!gould!wcarroll Give us peace in our time!