On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:23:37PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> the SS2 has 50pin connectors.  it has two of them and uses a stubby (2"
> or so) long ribbon cable for each of them.  I'm not sure how sun gets
> away with having three connectors from a single SCSI controller. (two
> internal, one external)

They are still on the same bus, just part of it is in the motherboard.

> it might be possible to squeeze in an SCA drive with an SCA to 50pin
> converter on it, if the 50pin and power connectors are at the middle or
> top of the converter.

MCPriceBreakers on eBay sells some of the tiniest converters I have ever
seen, and they still have full ground plates and termination.


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