Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:55:32 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Narrow SCSI controllers, and using WIDE drives with them Message-ID: <199804200355.WAA00526@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:12:33 %2B0800." <199804200312.LAA24540@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth writes: > > Is it possible, and if you have one of those 50 pin flat ribbon cables, is it > > possible to buy adaptors for those D-plug style connectors? Yes, it is possible to buy adapters. No, it won't work. As a general rule wide HD's will not fall back to a narrow connection. Wide controllers are forced to fall back and handle narrow devices as a special case. The exception (only seen it in documentation, not fact) was a wide 9G IBM drive with SCA connector. There was either a pin on the SCA or an external jumper to force the drive to fall back to narrow SCSI. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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