From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 31 20:46:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA15323 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA15318 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:46:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id UAA23895; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:46:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA18882; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:46:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611010446.UAA18882@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Aled Morris cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple SCSI question In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 31 Oct 96 19:05:20 +0000. <199610311905.TAA18469@deputy.pavilion.co.uk> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:46:02 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >At 10:58 31/10/96 -0800, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: >>>Is it OK to mix Wide (e.g. Barracuda HDD) and non-Wide (e.g. CD-ROM) >>>devices on a single bus? >>On most modern adapters, you get three connectors: internal narrow, >>internal wide, and external wide. You can connect devices to two of >>the three, but not all three at the same time (or else the termination >>will be screwed up). >The SCSI adaptor I have is built in to the motherboard (so no "external" >connector as such) and I believe there is only one IDC type connector for >the SCSI bus. >I thought wide and narrow devices had the same connector? They couldn't be much more different (internal connector, anyway). Just one of the differences is that "normal" (narrow/8-bit) SCSI is 50-pin, and wide (16-bit) SCSI is 68-pin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------