Re: RAMFAST SCSI: cable question PART 2

[gdr@eddore.myrias.com (Devin Reade)]

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.

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	Devin Reade	gdr@eddore.myrias.ab.ca