Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 13:41:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Announcement: New DPT RAID Controller Driver Available Message-ID: <199706221141.NAA00506@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19970622092031.LC39073@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jun 22, 97 09:20:31 am
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As J Wunsch wrote... > As Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > an earlier poster that those flimsy flex connections are pretty cheesy > > > and *so* easy to ruin). > > > > You are not supposed to get your hands on them... Newer SBBs have > > 'warranty void' stickers on them to keep people from opening them. > > Well, but if you're assembling a unit for a customer, you gotta handle > these connectors... We've been groaning when we did it a year ago. I > think there wasn't even a mark preventing you from connecting the flex > reversed, was it? You can no longer buy the 'white' SBBs that were specifically made for customer installation of their own devices. The amount of grief we got from all sorts of oddball devices connected behind raid controllers etc was the reason for that. "But it is in a SBB so it should work..." Argh. In my personal experience installing a flex is not so much of a problem. Removing it without killing the flex is much harder. Within DEC the flexes are discarded after they are removed (e.g. if a device needs to be removed in a warranty depot) Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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