[comp.unix.aix] RS6000/320: SCSI Pinout/external SCSI disk

roode@anansi.acs.uci.edu (Dana Roode) (12/21/90)

We have an IBM RS6000/320 and want to try third party external disk
on it.  Does anyone have the pinout of that odd 60pin connector IBM
uses for SCSI?

On a similar subject, anyone else out there had success putting third
party disk on a RS6000 and making it work?

  Dana Roode
  DRoode@uci.edu
  UC Irvine

jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) (12/22/90)

From article <27711037.15043@orion.oac.uci.edu>, by roode@anansi.acs.uci.edu (Dana Roode):
> 
> We have an IBM RS6000/320 and want to try third party external disk
> on it.  Does anyone have the pinout of that odd 60pin connector IBM
> uses for SCSI?
> 
> On a similar subject, anyone else out there had success putting third
> party disk on a RS6000 and making it work?
> 
>   Dana Roode
>   DRoode@uci.edu
>   UC Irvine

Several people have attached third-party SCSI disks to their 6000s, in
fact one poster brought up a 6000 with 3rd-party SCSI disks *only*.  The
machine is quite intelligent in handling SCSI disks, unfortunately it
doesn't carry over to the SCSI tape drive interface :-(

If you don't get a response to your pinout query let me know and I'll
test the pins of my cable (non-IBM) while I'm doing my spring-semester
preparations in early January.  This is assuming I don't receive death
threats from "Cable Manufacturers of the World".

-John
jpe@egr.duke.edu