From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 11 10:25: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from accord.grasslake.net (accord.grasslake.net [206.11.249.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D0537B6E9 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:24:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Received: from marlowe (Marlowe.campbell-mithun.com [192.159.32.184]) by accord.grasslake.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA02346 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:26:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Message-ID: <00d301c003b9$2d425990$b8209fc0@marlowe> From: "Shawn Barnhart" To: "FreeBSD Hardware List" References: Subject: Re: Best behaved drives for FreeBSD? Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:25:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Can someone explain to me the technical advantages of tying all the ground lines together at the cable connectors ("40 pin compatibility") but breaking them off seperately for the rest of the cable ("80 wire cable")? It strikes me that if you're doing ground isolation to keep noise at bay that tying the grounds together anywhere along the cable run would defeat the purpose. To me this makes no sense, but I'm not an eletrical engineer, either. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message