Date   : Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:32:56 +0100 (BST)
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: Dual Floppies On A Master

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> Hmm, interesting. I suppose a lot of modern SCSI cards and external 
> boxes manage (often badly) to auto-terminate, so maybe it's a similar 
> thing for the floppy drive world - there must be a way of electrically 
> detecting that you're the last device on the bus. No idea how though!

Isn't the termination simply a bank of resistors between all the data 
lines and ground? If so, wouldn't it be fairly easy to detect the presence 
or absence of such termination?