From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 17 19:00:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA26630 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:00:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [206.246.122.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA26621 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [206.246.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA06754; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:59:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 21:59:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Tom cc: Brett Glass , FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI3 cables In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Tom wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Brett Glass wrote: > > > > > Granite Digital is the best, and is not that expensive. > > > > I just checked their website, and their most inexpensive 3 foot 68 pin > > cable was $149. That's the single most expensive cable I've yet found, > > and costs quite a bit more than the controller. I didn't even look at > > their more expensive, sliver and gold cables. You may be right on their > > quality, but isn't that price a little overkill? Or does SCSI wide really > > need that kind of care? > > SCSI wide does not require that kind of "care", nor does SCSI-II, but > ultra SCSI does. The clock rate is doubled, and cable quality is > important. > > For me, buying a $150 cable for a $15K server is really good deal, and > much better than pissing around for days getting rid of SCSI errors... but > not everyone builds $15K boxes. I was going to wait until I located a discounter to post this, but maybe I shouldn't wait. I had the wrong web page, I was looking at the one for scsi external cabless. The internal cable I think I'll get (as soon as I find a discount place that sells Granite Digital, I've been told they exist) will only cost 86 bucks, full price. It's a lot for the application (which isn't a 15K server) but not as outrageous as I thought, for good quality. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------