[Suns-at-Home] Re: ultrascsi drive in sparc 20

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: paul@anastrophe.com
"
"will SCA 80 pin ultrascsi drives work on the sparc 20's scsi 2 bus? i 
"believe they will - they'll just ratchet down to scsi 2 bus speed. i'm 
"seeing some pretty great deals on drives on ebay, and most are ultrascsi. 

yes; scsi devices of mixed speeds will always negotiate down to the
highest common denominator.  the only gotcha is that some lvd drives
won't autodetect se operation and must be jumpered into se mode.
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