Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!utarlg.utarl.edu!b645zai From: b645zai@utarlg.utarl.edu (Jay Finger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: SCSI cables for NeXTStation Message-ID: <10945@helios.TAMU.EDU> Date: 17 Dec 90 17:08:37 GMT Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Reply-To: b645zai@utarlg.utarl.edu Organization: Computer Science and Engineering, U. of Texas at Arlington Lines: 21 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Well, my station finally arived. For those of you keeping track of deliveries, U.T. Arlington received its first 4 units on 12/14/90. I've got an 80Meg SCSI-1 drive that I want to add to the station, but I'll proabably add yet another drive later on, maybe SCSI-2. Does anybody know what differences there are between the SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 cables? I thought that the only time the two were different was when you added an additional cable to support the 16-bit and 32-bit wide SCSI-2 buses (which is optional), and since NeXT's SCSI-2 is still only 8-bit the cable's would be identical. And SCSI-2 drives are supposed to be designed so that they can still plug onto a SCSI-1 bus. So what give? I haven't seen these cables yet, so the difference may be really obvious; I just don't know. Another related question: If I get the SCSI-2 cable now, is it OK to use it with only a SCSI-1 drive, and maybe add the SCSI-2 drive later. ---- #include Jay Finger Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington b645zai@utarlg.utarl.edu finger@csun5.utarl.edu