From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 29 11:57:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA07915 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 11:57:25 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA07905 ; Sat, 29 Jul 1995 11:57:23 -0700 Message-Id: <199507291857.LAA07905@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: junkmail@pht.com (Brad Midgley), gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP on a big machine In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jul 95 11:29:27 PDT." <199507291829.LAA04333@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 11:57:22 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> we do have an a2940w, but the external connector on it isn't the standard >> "mini-50" it looks more like a "mini-68". Do you know if I can just get >> an adapter cable for my external (non-wide) chain? > >Not sure, depends on if the aha2940W allows you to terminate just the >upper 8 bits of the external bus. If it does allow that you can get a >SCSI-III 68 pin to SCSI-II 50 pin cable and do this. If the board does >not allow you to terminate the upper 8 bits your stuck. You can enable high and low byte termination separately. >-- >Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com >Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================