Re: Hard Drive Woes

[goo@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kent Radek)]

spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:

>In article Ken Richardson <KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes...
>>chain does not matter either.  I bought a Tsunami drive which has two 25
>>pin connectors instead of the 50 pin centronics.  Does the GS need the
>>50 pin connectors to function with more than one hard drive??

>	Good question, _is_ there a difference between SCSI HDs using a
>25-pin (female/D-style) connectors rather than the standard 50-pin centronics? 
>I too am about to order a LaCie Tsunami drive, but didn't notice the dual
>SCSI connectors in back were non-standard. I assume LaCie ships their drives
>with a 25-pin to 25-pin SCSI cable, which will hook up to a RamFast SCSI,
>but what if I want to hook up a second SCSI device? Is it going to be compatible
>or should I expect problems? (I hope not -- I thought I finally found a suitable
>replacement for TMS's Shadow drive which is no longer available!). :/

There is no difference between the two connectors -- all the important lines
are still there (the DB25 eliminates redundant GNDs).

If anyone is interested in cable swapping, I still have several cables with
DB25-C50 and DB25-DB25, but all my peripherals now have C50 connectors (I'm
badly in need of C50-C50 cables).

goo