Re: RAMFAST SCSI: cable question PART 2

[Robert Rivkin <rrivkin@umbc.edu>]

On 4 Feb 1996, Devin Reade wrote:

> In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.960204104716.17181E-100000@umbc7.umbc.edu>,
> Robert Rivkin  <rrivkin@umbc.edu> wrote:
> 
> >After various phone calls to cable suppliers, it was recommended that I 
> >simply go to the nearest electronics store and buy ribbon cable, 2 female 
> >and 1 male plugs, and make my own splitter.
> 
> I hope you made one of those ends of the splitter very short.  The
> SCSI-I spec (ANSI X3.131-1986 section 4.2.1) says that "A stub length
> of no more than 0.1 metres is allowed off the mainline inter-
> connection within any connected equipment".  (For the imperial-minded,
> 0.1 metres is approx 4 inches.)
> 
> While it is possible that a longer stub length may work at a given
> site, it is more likely to be flakey.
> 
> --
> 	Devin Reade	gdr@eddore.myrias.ab.ca
> 
> 
Thanks for the info.  I put the male in the middle of a 5" section of 
ribbon cable, leaving the females at each end.  There's been no problem 
[so far!].

Bob