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From: wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Build an external disk as boot disk with 2.0
Message-ID: <16112@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 91 23:52:50 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.225634.28188@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Sho-Huan Simon Tung writes:
>I have just got my Fujitsu 2263S setup as boot drive with all the 2.0
>software on it. Here is how I did it.
[ how he did it... ]
>   The only difficulty I encountered was to conect the cable in the
>   enclosure to the disk. There is no way to tell whether pin 1 of
>   the  cable conect to pin 1 of the disk or pin 50 of the disk.
>   But, I have only two choices. I get it right the second time.

Yikes!  This is not the approach I would recommend.  Our 2263 arrived
with a copy of Izumi's post AND a fair sized manual.  In this manual
you are instructed which side of the disk SCSI connector is pin 1.

Note to 040 users: This drive may turn out to be a REAL win, besides
the fact that it formats to 710 MB (with 1024 byte blocks) and costs
~$1410 and has a five year warranty.  According to the drive manual,
jumpers 1-2 allow you to set the drive in SCSI-2 mode, enabling
synchronous transfer at up to 4.8 MB/s.  (This is the same transfer rate
advertised in NeXT's blurb on the NeXTstation SCSI port, so I assume
the NeXT can handle it as well.)

Kind of beats the pant off of the 700 KB/s it runs normally, and the
900 KB/s Wrens get.

I haven't, unfortunately, gotten my station yet, so I haven't been able
to test this.  When I do, I'll post the new and improved jumper settings
for 040 folks.

-w