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- From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Length of SCSI-connection
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.200049.24723@fripp.ri.cadre.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 20:00:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Dec14.200049.24723
- References: <23314@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
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- In article 23314@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de, kroener@cs.uni-sb.de (Thomas Kroener) writes:
- >Hi freaks,
- >Does the length of the cable from a scsi host to a harddisk has any
- >influence on the performance of the disk ?
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- > ---Thomas
-
-
- The total length of the SCSI chain should not exceed 6 meters. In reality,
- I've found a number of SCSI interfaces that preform erratically due to
- cable length less than half of that. The moral: keep those SCSI cables as
- short as possible!
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