From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Nov 3 21:30:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA19325 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:30:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA19303 for ; Sun, 3 Nov 1996 21:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA13032; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:00:03 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611040530.QAA13032@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: OK, what's the deal with 2940W controllers and internal connectors? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:00:02 +1030 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611040432.PAA12438@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Nov 4, 96 03:02:13 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith stands accused of saying: > > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > > Then I was talking to Poul-Henning last night who pooh-pooh'd my > > foolish conservatism and stated that I could have used both internal > > connectors on my 2940UW no problem. Since I could use that 1542 as my > > spare again (which is why I have it), I'd sort of like to know which > > one of us is correct? :-) > > Stub length limit on the SCSI bus is spec'ed at 7" IIRC. Pick one arm > of the Y, say "hello stub", and make it as short as possible. Urk, forgot you were running wide - make the narrow internal the stub, and terminate the wide internal, and wide either on the card or external. I'm sure you get the picture 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[