Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!ames!think.com!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!princeton!phoenix!tvz From: tvz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT HDs, who makes them? Message-ID: <6031@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 7 Feb 91 15:55:46 GMT References: <1991Feb3.141109.26388@wam.umd.edu> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Lines: 19 In article cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) writes: >In article ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes: > >> Not that it really matters, since the SCSI port in the NeXTstation is >> SCSI-1. Only the cable is SCSI-2 > >Not that it matters, but just the opposite is true. > So what is the story? The User's Reference says: "The hard disk drive connector is an industry-standard SCSI port and its layout is provided below, under 'Internal SCSI port'" (p. 282) Is it really only the cable that is SCSI-1? Can an internal SCSI-2 drive be installed (if or when there is such a thing)? How are we supposed to interpret the rating of the 105MB internal drive at 4.0MB/sec transfer rate, when the SCSI port only has a ~1.2MB/sec transfer rate? In any case, why didn't NeXT go with SCSI-2 internally?