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Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 14:13:28 -0400
From: "Patrick S. Roberts" <proberts@sequoianet.com>
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Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>,
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Subject: Re: SCSI3 cables
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On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Tom wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Brett Glass wrote:
> > 
> > > Granite Digital is the best, and is not that expensive.
> > 
> > I just checked their website, and their most inexpensive 3 foot 68 pin
> > cable was $149.  That's the single most expensive cable I've yet found,
> > and costs quite a bit more than the controller.  I didn't even look at
> > their more expensive, sliver and gold cables.  You may be right on their
> > quality, but isn't that price a little overkill?  Or does SCSI wide really
> > need that kind of care?
> 
>   SCSI wide does not require that kind of "care", nor does SCSI-II, but
> ultra SCSI does.  The clock rate is doubled, and cable quality is
> important.
> 
>   For me, buying a $150 cable for a $15K server is really good deal, and
> much better than pissing around for days getting rid of SCSI errors... but
> not everyone builds $15K boxes.
> 
> Tom
> 

Heh... I just built a 80,000$ Box here and they started balking 'cause the
ethernet card ran them 769$. hahha...

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