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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Jonathan Stone wrote:

>
>
> >is there someone who has experience with devices that are
> >called "icy-dock"?
>
> A San Jose company[*] used to resell them. They worked fine for me.
> Only comment is that the insert/remove lever on the individual disk
> carriers in the 3-disk canisters are somewhat flimsy sheet metal.
> Prone to bending if inserted carelessly by rugby-player types.  They
> bend back though :) and it only happened to one of several 3-disk
> units.

Ok, this is kind of off topic for this list but since the subject came up:

I've got a SS20, which takes SCA discs internally, and has a high density 50
pin connector on the back like this: http://www.scsita.org/graphics/50pinHD.gif

As far as i'm aware this is 'fast', but not 'wide'.

I have another sca drive that i don't want to use internaly (it gets too
hot), which i have in an external case with a SCA <-> ribbon cable adapter.
The external case has Centronics 50 pin connectors on it (the old style),
and i've got a passive terminator. (it's a really crappy cheapo plastic
case).

Unfortunatly it dosen't seem to work in this configuration.

So:

Would i be better off getting a decent external case like the icy-dock ones?

Should i be using an active ternminator?

Are SCA drives LVD? (so should i be setting the 'Force Single ended' jumper
on the one in the external case?)

Can i damage the drives or the SS20 if i use the wrong combinations of
cables and cases?

Since the disk is a wide device do i need to do anything special to use it
on a narrow/8bit bus? (or will it just cope?)

The drive is this:

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/ultra/ul36lzx.htm

I already have an internal one, and it works fine.

> [*] strongly recommended by a local BSD user; the company merged with
> BSDi, I beleive that group now assembles Wind River FreeBSD systems.

Was this telenet systems, (now http://www.ixsystems.net/)?

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