isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) (11/27/90)
The NeXT SCSI-2 to SCSI-1 cable is Part # N7007. It is 36 inches long. List prices is $49 ($32 educational). Now, does anyone know what drives out there are SCSI-2? I see the 340 Meg drive NeXT packages with the new systems has twice the transfer rate of the standard 105 Meg drive (8 MB/sec) so I assume it is SCSI-2. Is this true? What drives in the 660M range are SCSI-2? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | David Lacey | Try the ISCA BBS and Archives | | President, Iowa Student Computer Assn | Telnet/FTP: isca.icaen.uiowa.edu | | The University of Iowa | telnet/rlogin in as iscabbs | | isca@icaen.uiowa.edu | 1.3 GIG of disk space and growing| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
me@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly) (11/27/90)
In article <3315@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) writes:
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-->The NeXT SCSI-2 to SCSI-1 cable is Part # N7007. It is 36 inches long.
-->List prices is $49 ($32 educational).
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-->Now, does anyone know what drives out there are SCSI-2? I see the 340 Meg
-->drive NeXT packages with the new systems has twice the transfer rate of
-->the standard 105 Meg drive (8 MB/sec) so I assume it is SCSI-2. Is this
-->true? What drives in the 660M range are SCSI-2?
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I don't believe it matters - since NeXT isn't implementing the wider
SCSI-2 interface data paths. NeXT is essentially using a SCSI-2
connector to implement a SCSI-1 interface- so you might as well find
a good SCSI-1 drive. I beleive the advantage of the NeXT SCSI-2
interface has to do with a more tightly controlled standard only.
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