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- From: etxzayl@cate1.ericsson.se (Johan Zeylon IN/SA/B)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: [Q] SCSI-2 HD's on SCSI interface
- Date: 17 Apr 1996 14:39:54 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- Message-ID: <4l2vrq$mhb@erinews.ericsson.se>
- References: <4l0j8p$fuq@news1.io.org>
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- To: kcozens@io.org
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- In article fuq@news1.io.org, kcozens@io.org (Kevin Cozens) writes:
- >jwcj@rlb6000.scs.uiuc.edu (John Chen) wrote:
- >
- >>Would a SCSI-2 hard disk work on a SCSI-1 interface like those on GVP
- >>combos? Thanks.
- >
- >No. SCSI-2 controllers can talk to SCSI-1 devices but not the other
- >way around.
- >
- >
- Oh yes they will, SCSI-2 drives will fall-back to SCSI-1 compatibility mode.
- Just remember that SCSI-2 devices usually don't have any termination on-board,
- they use active termination. Place them in the middle of a SCSI-1 chain.
- There will be problems with units that only use SCSI-2 commands though, like
- some CD-ROMs and tape drives. Try it, you can't break anything!
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- /Johan
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