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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Internal Hard Drive for Mega
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Date: 28 Dec 90 17:30:14 GMT
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From article <40157@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by emerson@gandalf.Berkeley.EDU (Emerson Mei):
> I now that alot of people out there have put those in, my question is
> 	Do you get a connector that allows you to hook up any SCSI drive off 
> the back of your Mega?  Iknow that it should work if the host adapter follows
> the starndard SCSI implementation,  however which one will allow you to use a
> 17 foot scsi cable, or multiple devices off an internal HA?  Has anyone done
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   > any similar configuration?

I don't know the answer to your question, but I have heard of some
problems with it.  Sometimes the external Acsi connection is rendered
useless for the laser printer etc..  FYI, SCSI cables are at most 6'
(six feet) long, with short stub connectors extra (6" <six inches> or
so, I don't remember this spec so well), set up as a bus.

e.g.

|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------|-------|
 
(where '|' is a stub connector and '---' is the cable, 8 devices,
including the host adaptor max)

So scale back your expectations a little ok? 8-)	

Bob Pegram

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