Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 15:02:13 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OK, what's the deal with 2940W controllers and internal connectors? Message-ID: <199611040432.PAA12438@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <8387.847074260@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 3, 96 06:24:20 pm
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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. I've run longer stubs (over about 50cm things get nasty), but only on old/slow stuff (old workstations, 1542 clones, slow disks). > Jordan -- ]] 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 [[
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