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From: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Questions on SCSI device interfacing...
Keywords: SCSI, tape, hard drives, cabling, controllers, cost
Message-ID: <1131@gethen.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 18:30:47 GMT
References: <433@icus.UUCP> <704@hodge.UUCP> <698@viscous> <14901@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: farren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren)
Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland
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In article <14901@apple.Apple.COM> ems@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Mike Smith) writes:
>
>I've seen Mac drives on cables about 10 feet long.  I *THINK* it will go the
>full 20 ft. in the spec., but haven't personally seen it.

And *I*, personally, wouldn't try it.  My data been bery, bery, good to
me - I'd like to be just as good to it.  Long cables at high data rates
are bad news.  Especially with an interface that ignores grounding
conventions (like Apple's).

-- 
Michael J. Farren             | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just 
{ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}!     | dogmatize it!  Reflect on it and re-evaluate
        unisoft!gethen!farren | it.  You may want to change your mind someday."
gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame