Andy Ball wrote:

> Hello Paul,
>
>   PTS> Is there a limit on the type of scsi drive you can
>      > put into an SS5?
>
> I have been told that the SPARCstation 5 SCSI bus is fast
> (10 MHz), narrow (8-bit) and electrically single-ended.  Any
> drives that you add would need to be able to adapt to that
> kind of bus.



ok so if it's a more modern standard it won't work yeah?







>
>
>   PTS> One disk worked fine.
>      > The others not at all. I was surprised.  In the case
>      > of these probe-scsi showed nothing detected.
>
> I would probably have to pull my SPARCstation 5 apart (or at
> least look at some diagrams) to understand where you
> connected your drives. My first thought was that termination
> built into the SCA backplane might be the issue, but perhaps
> you have disconnected that.

yeah the SCA plug has nothing on it.



>
>
> Out of interest have you tried each drive individually,

yes.
but with the external cdrom on though.




>
> perhaps connected via the external SCSI port? What makes and
> models of drive are you using?

good question.
sorry they are at home.
have to answer later.

maybe it's just a termination issue?


thks,
P.




>
> - Andy Ball

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