Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!decwrl!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: which way is up on SCSI cable? Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 21:25:29 GMT References: <322.27306AB6@afitamy.fidonet.org> Lines: 16 >In article <322.27306AB6@afitamy.fidonet.org> Duane.Tackett@afitamy.fidonet.org (Duane Tackett) writes: >Another interesting point is the fact that 25 of the 50 pins on your hard >drive are ground! Why so many? Someone must of been sniffing too much >silicon the night they cooked that one up... It's for noise suppression. Duh. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The extra grounds act as noise suppression on the SCSI bus, preventing all sort of spurious errors. Try routing an unshielded SCSI cable over a monitor, and watch the errors pile up. > Duane Tackett (FIDONET newbie) -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |