Re: help! Daisy-chain two SCSI HDs inside one case

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

stephen e buggie (buggie@indus.unm.edu) wrote:

: For my hard drive, I have a 40 meg Quantum HD inside a large Profile case.

: Its a big case, and I want to add a second hard drive.  The power supply 
: is big enough.  I want to get use out of the several small hard drives 
: (20-40 meg) that are otherwise gathering dust...

: BUT HOW DO I CONNECT?  The twin SCSI connectors from the back panel have 
: just one ribbon inner-cable.   JAMECO advertises a ribbon cable, with 
: three connectors,but that one wont connect to the ribbon from the back 
: panel. I think that the Jameco cable has 3 female sockets on it, but one 
: male and two female sockets would be better.......?

If your ribbon cable is long enough to reach both drives, you could simply
add a second connector; 50-pin internal SCSI connectors aren't hard to
come by, and the pinouts are exactly the same for all devices on the chain...

I have a SCSI hard drive mounted inside a Vulcan-GS case, so I have a
cable that runs from the SCSI drive, to a DB-25 female connector attached
to the back of my computer, terminating at a DB-25 male connector which
plugs into the HS-SCSI card and just sort of hangs down inside the
computer.  So I still have an (unused) external SCSI connector in case I
ever get another SCSI device or six.  Sort of the opposite of your
situation...

--Dave Althoff, ][.

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