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Article #897NeXT CD-ROM drive: What kind of SCSI connecter does it have ?
From: Thomas Tschannen
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:27
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:27
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I've got a few questions in connection with the NeXT CD-ROM drive. 1) I heard you need a SCSI-I to SCSI-II cable in order to connect it. Does this mean the drive (I asume it is a new product) is a SCSI-I device ? 2) In FAQ to csnh I read that you can use the SUN cables as SCSI-I to SCSI-II cable. Well, all the peripherals I've seen so far connected to our SUNs have a DB-50 connecter. The DB-50 connect looks just like the one used with the NeXT laser printer but with 50 pins in 3 rows. Does that mean a SCSI-I to SCSI-II cable has a high density plug on one side (to connect to the NeXT) and a DB-50 plug on the other side ? 3) What type of plug does the CD-ROM drive have on its back ? (Could imagine a DB-50 or a centronics 50 pin plug) 4) Does the NeXT CD-ROM drive have an internal terminator for the SCSI-bus ? 5) I've heard the the NeXT CD-ROM drive supports beside others a NeXT specific format. Does that mean that everybody with say a SUN CD-ROM drive will be lost sometime in the future when NeXT starts to ship sw in their own format ? Thank you very much for your help. Thomas -- Internet: tschannen@phil.unibe.ch
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!chx400!aragorn.unibe.ch!news From: tt@panda.unibe.ch (Thomas Tschannen) Subject: NeXT CD-ROM drive: What kind of SCSI connecter does it have ? Message-ID: <1992Oct16.082705.10373@aragorn.unibe.ch> Sender: news@aragorn.unibe.ch Reply-To: tschannen@phil.unibe.ch Organization: University of Berne, Switzerland Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:27:05 GMT Lines: 31