Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:42:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: External SCSI device with internal SCSI adapter? Message-ID: <19990202094216.Q71384@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.05.9902011226050.18150-100000@goodall2.u.washington.edu>; from K. Marsh on Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 12:28:45PM -0800 References: <36B5F84B.CD075C1A@3-cities.com> <Pine.A41.4.05.9902011226050.18150-100000@goodall2.u.washington.edu>
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On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 12:28:45 -0800, K. Marsh wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Kent Stewart wrote: > >> Adaptec has cables to hook up their AHA-2940U2W to legacy 50 pin >> internal/external devices. It has a socket connector one end and a plate to >> go in a slot on the other end. I think I have seen these other places but it >> would be easy to manufacturer. > > Yeah, I bought one of these. Only thing is, then I can't connect any of > my internal devices - CD and hard disk. I need to use BOTH internal AND > external devices with my adapter. Possible? That depends on your host adaptor, about which you've been very quiet. All host adaptors that I know allow this configuration, but you may have to juggle terminators on older devices or change BIOS settings on newer ones. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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