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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:42:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Ristuccia <brianr@osiris.ml.org>
To:        "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu>
Cc:        Doug Ledford <dledford@dialnet.net>, aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Atalla, Mauro J." <mjatalla@MIT.EDU>, Juergen Hammelmann <juergen@tunix.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>, Lutz Vieweg <lkv@isg.de>, Chen Chi Ming Hubert <cmh_chen@MIT.EDU>, Tom Leidy <ogre@ptd.net>
Subject:   Re: Dell 410 Workstations and Asus Motherboard systems
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02.9807231040440.7136-100000@osiris.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980723103237.13786M-100000@ganesh.phy.duke.edu>

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On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> 
> > Sometimes the HA will be in the middle of the ribbon:
> > 
> >  <|-----------|-----------|--------|----------------|>
> >  terminator   drive       host     drive    terminator
> >  pack                     adaptor                 pack
> 
> Ah, you mean that they have a ribbon that plugs into the single
> connector in the middle, but has two ends?  Never seen or used such a
> beast, but that very well may be it.
> 

There's nothing to prevent the user from connecting any of the 7
connectors on his SCSI ribbon cable to any particular device. The host
adaptor is a SCSI device just like any other.

--
Brian Ristuccia
brianr@osiris.ml.org
bristucc@baynetworks.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu


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