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From: stung@greatwhite.cs.indiana.edu (Sho-Huan Simon Tung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Build an external disk as boot disk with 2.0
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.010023.20660@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 91 06:00:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.225634.28188@news.cs.indiana.edu> <16112@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
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In article <16112@milton.u.washington.edu> wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Jon Shipley) writes:
>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.

You are right the drive comes with a manual and I also looked at the 
manual. However, Figure 2.16 and Figure 2.13 which show the scsi
connector are kind of confusing. Use Figure 2.13, Figure 2.16 should
be interpreted upside down when the print circuit board of the drive
is at bottom.

Simon