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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Problems with Fast SCSI-II on Sun Sparc 10 (long)
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- References: <1992Nov15.121008.12717@pt.com> <1992Nov16.130949.1490@devon.co.uk> <1992Nov19.010445.20713@pt.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 06:50:48 GMT
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- In <1992Nov19.010445.20713@pt.com> jjg@pt.com (John Grana) writes:
- | Passive was fine for older SCSI (3-4 MB/sec). For a loaded SCSIbus (5 or
- | more devices) and/or SCSI Fast (10 MB/sec) it doesn't work. Period.
-
- This is an overly strong statement. It may or may not be true
- of Sun's (or your companies) SCSI implementation, but I routinely
- run 5-7 SCSI devices (typically all disk, or all disk except one tape)
- synchronous at various rates 4-5 MB/sec, in fairly heavy use
- on our systems. This is typically a combination of ribbon and
- round twisted pair cable in two or 3 cabinets.
-
- | Active does a much better job for 10 MB devices but starts to
- | fall after 2 or 3 fast devices and/or long (> 4 feet) cables.
-
- This isn't true in general either. I have less experience with
- this, but we have definitely run 4 disks over some fairly
- sloppy cabling at fast SCSI rates, with active termination at
- each end. No problems; it *is* more sensitive to termination and
- cabling though, no doubt about it. Cable length and number of
- impedance mismatches (ribbon to twisted pair transitions) definitely
- has more of an affect than at the lower data rates and longer signal
- assertions.
-
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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