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From: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.2 / Slow SCSI Dell PowerEdge 4300
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At 16:35 14.10.99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Thanks for the response!
>
>Sorry if I read a little strange, but I'm no SCSI specialist.

<snip>
>
>In all cases I'm stuck with that board, because the disks draw power
>from it - signaling/data and power in the same SCSI interface (I'm
>sure that has a simple name for that...)
>   I'm not even sure if I can connect that "backplane" to a normal
>SCSI controller (like an SCSI Card 2940U2W) because the architecture
>seems very proprietary...

Hi!
If that is a 80-pin looking-like Centronics plug,probably it is SCA?
This means it could be HVD type SCSI, whereas U2W is the low voltage=
 version...

Sun used a lot of Barracuda drives, if memory serves me right.

Regards
Olaf Hoyer


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