This one I do know is correct! Even if this is a bit nit-picky and something you already know, it's well worth defining the terms. Termination is either on of off, commonly set by a jumper or switch position. Whereas Active Termination is the function of additional electronics, usually implemented on the pass thru Connector/Adapter PCB of an external peripheral's enclosure. "Passive" termination would be the simple on-off toggling setup, like the jumper block on you adapter's header connections.

Unless, of course, common usage has blurred the distinction since that time when SCSI Interfaced Consumer Products and Wooly Mammoths roamed the Earth.

< . . . figures it's well past time to post a pic of such a critter in the Peripherals Forum & hopes WiKiPedia linkages will save him the bother . . . >

edit: drat! no automagical linkage . . . does the presence of text modifier code prevent this? :?: