pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (01/10/91)
Hi All,
Here's an odd one. A friend just move from a Plus to a IIsi and ran
into some problems with his LaserWriter IISC. He had been using a long
9ft SCSI cable with no troubles (even had a hard disk daisy chained on
with another 6ft cable). When he hooked up the IIsi, though, really
strange things started happening and he couldn't print (or even launch
most programs). It turned out the the IIsi can't handle the 9ft cable.
It worked fine when we used a 3 ft cable - didn't have a chance to
test with a 6 ft cable. So perhaps Apple stole some power from the
SCSI bus, thus shortening its effective length, which was 16 ft
previously.
cheers ... Adam
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