Re: CD images?
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:46:59PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:31:36AM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> > > > Well, hooking a CD-rom to it isn't as trivial as I thought--the external
> > > > port is actually a SCSI-1 rather than a SCSI-3, even though it looks like
> > > > a SCSI-3: meaning that it's proprietary. How come nothing ever is as easy
> > > > as it looks :( That means that I have TWO boat anchors in that pile ATM
> > > > :(
> > >
> > > Oeh ? All Decstations i have ever seen do have a normal Fast-SCSI
> > > (High Density 50 Pin) SCSI connectors ...
> >
> > Weird, since the ones I saw at the univ did have the HD 68-pin connector for
> > external devices, while they have normal 50-pin SCSI inside. And yes, it's not
> > wide-SCSI, but a proprietary DEC-wiring of narrow-SCSI over wide-connectors.
>
> HD68 ? Are you sure - That would mean that the decstations have
> Wide Controllers - All i have seen do only have Fast controllers
> which have HD50 pinout.
They are HD68, but not wide-SCSI!
The internal cable is a bunch of separate wires (no flatcable!) with standard
50-pin connectors for internal devices and one HD68 connector for external
devices.
Tom: can you please verify this on your DS3100?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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