Reading 9-track tapes in Linux

[Tony Duell]

> It's not right.  You might be able to get away with the exceptions for
> stubs to devices if the wires from the terminator to the device and the
> open connector are short enough, but that seems unlikely to me,
> especially since I think the maximum stub length for that exception is
> something like three inches.

As a general point you should never try to 'get away with things' like 
this. This applies IMHO to all areas of hardware -- if you do things like 
this they will come back to 'bite' you when you least want problems. I 
would put everything right (e.g. not have stubs on a SCSI bus) and then 
try to sort out remaining problems, knowing that they're genuine 
problems, not caused by misuse of hardware.

-tony