Date   : Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:43:45 +0100
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: Dual Floppies On A Master

Tim Fardell wrote:
> 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? 

Ah, sorry, no. Ignore that - I've just realised what you meant!

Bit slow this evening - sorry folks.