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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: SCSI/2 or SCSI on the falcon?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.090511.3135@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Keywords: falcon, SCSI
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:05:11 GMT
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- In article <C00u8s.6GE@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Torsten Scherer) writes:
- >greetings to the world...
- >
- >i'm a bit confused now, if the falcon will/is come out/coming out with an
- >external SCSI or SCSI/2 port. i think i'll not buy the '030 but wait another
- >year for a machine which is a bit more up to date... but i'm having lots of
- >problems with free space on my MSTE/4's internal harddisk _now_ and i'd like
- >to buy a much bigger one (it's SCSI) _now_, but use it on the falcon 040 or
- >whatever its name will be later. now has it got a SCSI port or a SCSI/2 port?
- >or is it possible to software-configurate SCSI/2 ports to drive the older 8
- >bit units?
-
- SCSI-2 is fully compatible with SCSI-1. The only problem you will have is
- getting a cable with the SCSI-2 connector on it. I've got my Quantum and
- Syquest hooked up to the Falcon now with no troubles. (Except that it didn't
- like it when the Mega-4/ICD was also on the bus; I had to pull them off...)
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
- There's a narrow border between genius and insanity, but I'm a dual citizen.
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