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From: bms@bdt.UUCP (Vance Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SCSI controler...
Message-ID: <1713@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 05:02:37 GMT
References: <3790@plains.UUCP> <1990Mar16.224434.10948@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: bms@bdt.UUCP (Vance Chin)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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In article <1990Mar16.224434.10948@chinet.chi.il.us> saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
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>ICD makes a line of products incorporating their own host adapter, and which
>work best with the controller software that ICD writes.  Their host adapter
>allows the longest cable run between it and the hard drive.

The longest SCSI cable that we have put on a BMS-200 is 20 feet, this is the 
maximum length allowed by the SCSI specs.  The DMA cable supplied is 37 inches
measured end to end, this is about the same length as the ICD dma cable.

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>                                Steve J.

Vance Chin
Berkeley Microsystems