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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga 3000 SCSI chain: help me
- Date: 26 Jan 1996 15:26:03 GMT
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- Nick (gruel@hondo.cyberverse.com) wrote:
- : Jeff...what I was really after was whether or not I can remove the
- : original ribbon completely and replace it with another ribbon with all
- : SCSI-II connectors, arranged such that it has one end long enough to reach
- : the empty floppy bay - without having to worry whether or not the SCSI-II
- : connectors (assuming the original ribbon has SCSI-I connectors) will
- : interact properly with the built in controller.
-
- Short answer: yes.
-
- Longer answer: Ain't no such thing as a SCSI-2 connector. There's 50-pin
- header, 50-pin Centronics, and the newer high-density 50-pin connector,
- which is often called a "SCSI-2" connector because they've usually only
- been placed on newer SCSI-2 boards. Any combination of these will work;
- of course, internal devices only need the 50-pin header.
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