From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 21:42:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 285E537B416 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:42:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16asBg-000CMM-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 05:42:36 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id AE87D13040 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:42:35 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id B1D2E22590; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:42:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:42:35 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: SCSI Cable question Message-ID: <20020213054235.GB970@raggedclown.net> References: <84360090@toto.iv> <15465.52150.57119.707473@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15465.52150.57119.707473@guru.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:13:10PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Danny Horne types: > > I'm building a new machine out of a mixture of new & used bits. I have an > > LVD terminated SCSI cable in which the cable itself is shot. The LVD > > terminator is removable. Can I buy a cheap 68 way SCSI cable & use the LVD Bad SCSI cables (cheap may equal bad) are one of the top 5 criminals in SCSI problems. > > terminator on that? If I can it'll save me much money. > > I can't think of any reason why it shouldn't work - a terminate is a > terminate is a terminator (except some are passive, and some are > active and...). Of course, it's not clear that buying cheap cable is a > good idea. > >