3/80 SCSI cables

Jon Mandrell amc-gw!jon at entropy.ms.washington.edu
Fri Sep 29 05:51:14 AEST 1989


>>  +------------------------+------+  <= ribbon cable
>>  |                        |      |
>>  |                        |      header, connect to internal drive
>>  |                        header, connect to board
>>  Old-style Sun connector, connect to shoebox cable
>On a related issue:  the docs I've seen say that mixing embedded and
>adaptec/emulex SCSI drives on the same 3/80 is "not supported".  Any ideas
>on what this really means?  If you try, do you get even stranger unit
>numbers than before?

I have not had a problem at all.  The ID's came up the same as on the
old 3/50 and 3/60 that I used before.  The drives are as follows:

	drive sd0 - SCSI ID 0
	drive sd2 - SCSI ID 1
	drive sd4 - SCSI ID 2
	drive sd6 - SCSI ID 3
	drive st0 - SCSI ID 4

Jon Mandrell, Applied Microsystems Corp., (jon at amc.com or ..!uunet!amc-gw!jon)



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