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From: kinsell@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Dave Kinsell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP configuration question.
Message-ID: <17330010@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 90 15:13:08 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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>>Suppose I had a 9000/370.  Can I have the following interface cards installed
>>at the same time?
>>
>>1 SCSI
>>2 Hi-speed HP-IB
>>1 HPIB
 
>>along with the graphics cards, and stuff?  In the price manual, it mentions
>>that you can't order Hi-speed hpib and scsi at the same time, why not?

>Yes, you can if you have an expander cabinet.  The reason they say you can't
>have both is because the two options listed both use a daughterboard on the
>CPU card.  Only room for one, so if you get a SCSI built in you need to get
>a separate IO card for fast HPIB.  But we have machines with both SCSI and
>HPIB disks doing just fine.

There's also a DIO-1 card available for SCSI now, the 98658A.  This
might be of interest to customers who already own the high-speed HP-IB
daughterboard.

Regards
Dave Kinsell
kinsell@hpfcmb.hp.com