Brian Murphy wrote: > > Hi- > > I'm a long-time lurker here (since digest #67) and I have a question > I can't recall being answered here before: Can a 68-Pin Ultra Fast > Wide SCSI HD be used as a boot drive on the S900's bus 0? Is there > an alternative way of saying "68-Pin Ultra Fast Wide SCSI"? I'm > having trouble finding information on this standard on the Web. > (Hope this doesn't open too large a can of worms.)
-------- Brian - You don't mention if this drive is already installed in your S900. I have a UW SCSI drive running off a UW SCSI PCI card that is used as a startup drive but is not addressed as 0. As for being able to address the drive as 0, not sure if it needs to be on the internal SCSI-2 ribbon for this to be possible. When I do a SCSI probe, the drives that are running off controller cards are all showing up as address 0....and I can designate any of the partitions/drives as startup volume. If you are wanting to just connect the 68-pin drive onto the internal 50-pin SCSI ribbon without using a controller card to take advantage of the faster speed of the drive, then you would first need some sort of 68 to 50 pin adapter and also figure out the address 0 setting on the drive as well as changing the other drive's address to something else, which would involve researching the brand's address setting scheme. So, is this drive sitting on your desk of installed in the S900 ? Alan S900 - factory SCSI-2 drive (address 0) hardly used except for emergencies. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
