Re: Using 80 pin drives on a Fuel

Toni Grass <toni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tristram Scott wrote:

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Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be the problem with doing
this on the 68 pin cable? I was quite prepared for it to wok the whole bus
single ended rather than LVD, but it doesn't even want to do that for me.

I think, you should use an adaptor which is really LVD (which means no
50 pin connector) and you have to care for the correct SCSI ID

Toni

Thanks Toni. I had wondered about this, and I am attempting to track down
such an adaptor. All my reading, though, indicates that it should be
perfectly possible to put a 50 pin device on and LVD chain, but it will
force the whole chain to work as single ended. Unfortunately, I am not
even seeing this. Hinv reports the adaptor, but no devices at all.

I'll look for an 80 -> 68 pin adaptor this week. The place I visited on
Friday was out of stock, and I had expected the [80, 50] -> 68 would be
fine.

--
Dr Tristram J. Scott
Energy Consultant
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