SCSI Bus Problem?

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Mon Feb 11 14:59:23 2002

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jerome Fine wrote:
>
> > Sellam - this one is racked in a tower box as well with TEN 5 1/4"
> > half height drive bays - is that what you are using? I can't begin
> > to imagine TEN 5 1/4" FULL HEIGHT drive bays, but if that
> > is what you really meant, then I guess this box is only half the size.
>
> No, I have 10 half-height 5.25" drive bays. 10 full height would
> actually be 20 half-height, which would be insane :)

Hey! I have a dual tower SCSI case (alas, missing its faceplate and drive
sleds) that has 8 full height or 16 HH openings in it. I don't think that
is too insane :P

I think the case is a clone sun enclosure, and uses 50 pin D-Sub type
connectors for the SCSI chain. Does anyone know anything about it?

> I'm going to use SCSI Wide so I can get up to 15 devices on the chain.

Well, that only works for *wide* devices. Most all of the tape drives
you'll be needing that are SCSI will be the narrow variety. Some will be
10Mb/s (fast SCSI), but a large number of the older drives will be 5Mb/s.

-Toth
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 14:59:23 GMT