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From: ken@slhisc.uucp (Ken Stamm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Tips needed on adding 2nd internal hard disk to a Mac II
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.144126.7063@slhisc.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 90 14:41:26 GMT
References: <DAN.90Nov15132326@s3sol.scubed>
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In article <DAN.90Nov15132326@s3sol.scubed> dan@s3sol.scubed (Dan Peterka) writes:
>
>I'd like to know what I have to do wrt to power and SCSI ribbon cable
>though. Can I simply make Y cables or should they be Daisy-chained?
>Are there off-the-shelf kits to do this?
>
>  Disk 1  Disk 2     Disk 1  Disk 2 
>     |    |             |______|    
>      \  /       OR:     \            How about the power cables?
>       \/                 \        
>     SCSI Conn          SCSI Conn   
>
>--
SCSI connections should be daisychained, not Y'ed.
(for the classic violation of this rule, see the inside of any Sun
Sparcstation w/2 drives...)

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