SCSI Bus Problem?

From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Mon Feb 11 17:54:57 2002

>A narrow device will not slow down a wide bus to narrow width. But a
>10 MHz device will slow down a 20 MHz SCSI bus to 10MHz.

        Definately don't want to plug a 5mhz SCSI-1 drive up to a
40mhz Ultra2 SCSI, or better, board if you have other drives running
at the boards full speed! I have had to go the other direction
though to get a large 68pin Wide drive installed on a 10mhz SCSI bus
in an older machine. In that case, the capacity it added was much
more important than the lost speed of the drive.

        Jeff
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