Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:51:16 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler), sef@kithrup.com, hardware@freebsd.org, gj@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape drive questions/recommendations Message-ID: <199606180851.KAA01006@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:09:25 %2B0930." <199606180339.NAA22510@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> > > Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > > Oh, yeah, I did want to mention the WORST part of the whole deal: twisti - ng > > > SCSI cables. > > > My hard disks, of course, can be oriented right side up, or upside down. > > > However, my CD-ROM drive and my tape drive have a definite "up" position - -- > > > and they each have pin1 of the SCSI connector on a different end! *grumbl - e* > > Yecch! I was fairly sure the SCSI spec actually dictates which way up > the cable is supposed to go; The Prentice Hall SCSI NCR book doesnt say (no suprise, very thin book) > certainly I've mixed just about every > brand of SCSI disk and some tapes and CDs and never had to do a twist... I've seen the twist necessary: either on gj@freebsd.org or jkh@freebsd.org 's machine a few years ago, at least one of them had some 3" single slot disc that needed to run upside down, due to inverted scsi socket on the disc. Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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