QBus termination?

Tue Feb 8 11:41:42 CST 2005

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Patrick Finnegan wrote:

> > The M9400-YA does have boot PROMs.  I've got one in this 11/23.  The
> > weird thing is that the DSD-440 controller was in this system
> > originally, and it has its own boot PROMs.  However, the terminator is
> > in a second bus segment.  Does that make a difference?
>
> Not all M9400s do, as mine doesn't have the proms (it has the traces and
> holes in the PCB, but it hasn't been populated with chips, or even
> sockets).  But yes, some M9400s do have boot PROMs.

Specifically, the M9400-YA (the -YA is the indicator here) does.

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