From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 18 07:15:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA28176 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 07:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-42-140.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.140]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA28167; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 07:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA01006; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:51:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199606180851.KAA01006@vector.jhs.no_domain> X-Authentication-Warning: vector.jhs.no_domain: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Michael Smith 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 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 (later) Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:09:25 +0930." <199606180339.NAA22510@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 10:51:16 +0200 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Reference: > From: Michael Smith > > 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/