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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Internal Hard Drive for Mega
Message-ID: <1991Jan7.183159.13619@uvm.edu>
Date: 7 Jan 91 18:31:59 GMT
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From article <6560001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, by ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com 
(David Ritchie):

I wrote:
 
>>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.

>>Bob Pegram

>>pegram@griffin.uvm.edu
 
David Ritchie replied:

>   Actually, the correct values are 6 and 0.1 meters, respectively. 
> (I cheated, however -- I looked it up in the ANSI standard).
 
>   Whether or not this works for your drive and controller is left as a
> exercise for the student....
 
> -- Dave Ritchie
> ritchie@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com

OOPS!  *Blush*.  I cheated worse, and relied on my very faulty memory,
instead of looking it up (I have second hand refs , not the real stuff).
Thus, the original poster's 17 ft expectations were quite realistic.
Thanks for letting me off easy 8-) 8-).  

I promise to be accurate in future postings, 
I promise to be....
(500X)

Bob Pegram

pegram@griffin.uvm.edu
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