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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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Subject: Re: Cabling Rimfire to Super-eagle
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Date: 4 Oct 89 15:19:07 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 158, message 2 of 21

In article <1875@brazos.Rice.edu> vahe@math.ucla.edu writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 149, message 2 of 10
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>Cabling has become a stumbling block. The 2361 has a metal wall in the
>back (presumably for RF protection) from which a shielded cable goes to
>the edge of the controller.  (All connectors are large D-type jobbies.)
>The only catch here is that the connectors aren't large enough to support
>all the pins in an SMD A cable, so they've split the "logical" A cable
>into two "physical" A cables.  The Rimfire has a large plug for a D-type
>connector on the edge of the card.  But Ciprico doesn't make a cable that
>goes from their controller to the "split" A cable connectors on the 2361.
>As far as we've been able to determine, nobody else does either.
>

I know that Sun uses those cables and should be available from them. The
SMD-4 has the same configuration, and especially if you cable form an
SMD-4 to the expansion chassis with SMD disks, is uses this kind of cable.

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