Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 09:13:03 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #3 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 13 Jan 92 Volume 5 : Issue 3 Today's Topics: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #2 (shoebox disks) +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 92 23:27:05 EST From: eccles!geoff@uunet.UU.NET (gmh) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #2 To: eccles!Suns-at-Home%ecn.purdue.edu@uunet.UU.NET > Most any 5.25" SCSI disk will fit; the physical size is the same > no matter the data capacity. True, but this warning from Simon Hackett in a recent sun-managers message bears repeating: ... I was reminded about something which, while not directly impacting my situation, is well worth repeating. This is the infamous design decision(?) by Sun to ground the "termination power" SCSI pin on the 3/60 and 4/110 models, which means that a straight-through cable from either of these models to a SCSI drive with termination power supplied tends to blow the drive up! So while it's safe to plug an ex sun-3 drive onto a new system, plugging a new drive onto a 3/60 is potentially a problem! It's ok if you disable "termination power" on the drive, or cut the appropriate pin of the SCSI cable. This shouldn't be a problem as long as you're attaching another ESDI drive to the Emulex board but if you decide to try one of the newer embedded SCSI drives you've been warned... Geoff Harrison uunet!dmdev!geoff ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************