Subject: Re: Hard drive
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/11/1998 11:59:10
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> The Sun 3/60 cannot use a SCSI "wide" device - there are more pins in the
> interface (SCSI is 8 bit transfers, and SCSI "wide" is 16 bits).

SCSI is SCSI is SCSI.

If you've got the right cable it will work.

Ultra Wide drives should be able to speak SCSI1 just fine.  As a previous
poster pointed out, its a waste of a good disk.

Check out www.ebay.com and buy a cheap 500 meg SCSI disk.

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