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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 SCSI chain: help me
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 17:02:39 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- slider wrote:
-
- >-> I didn't state that clearly, but what I was implying is that I do not
- >-> believe you'd FIND SCSI-II IDC connectors for your ribbon cable, or if
- >--> you do, they will look suspiciosly like SCSI-I connectors. The drives
- >->- are pin-compatable.
- >->
- >-> SCSI-II WIDE on the other hand....
-
- >******Note he was asking about the internal connectors*****
-
- Yah, and that's an important clue as to why I specified IDC connetors,
- wouldn't you agree?
-
- > Now there have
- >been a couple flavors of external connectors between SCSI-I and SCSI-II, but the internal
- >connectors have always been 50 connector straight thru wired with 50pin IDS
- >connectors on each end.
-
- Anyone that sells you a SCSI connector that is not specifically built for
- SCSI-WIDE is getting far more money out of you than you should be
- paying. This is not to deny that the high-density 50-pin connectors are
- not expensive, because they are, but it's not because they magically
- became SCSI-II. Same signals, same pinout... SCSI.
-
-