On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:40:52 -0500 (CDT) 
 "John C. Hayward" <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.wheaton.edu> wrote:

 > with another system and then boot off of the "borrowed" drive.  I have
 > a drive which plugs into a DecStation - 3100.  Is this the same SCSI 
 > connector on the UDB?  

The connector on the UDB (Multia) is a 50-pin mini connector (a'la 
SPARCstations).  The connector on the DECstation is the Centronics-style, 
I think...

Internally, the cable should be the same; electrically, it's just SCSI.

Chip-wise, the UDB uses the NCR53c810 SIOP.

 >    Also I remember people indicating that HP SCSI drives seem to have 
 > problems with UDB and NetBSD.  I open for suggestions for best drive
 > to get which is external for the UDB and NetBSD.

I'm using a Fujitsu 3G with no problems...

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