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Connecting extra drives to 4/260?

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From: Don Faulkner
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 03:29
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With all the stuff going past about the cheap disks from Newbury (380 mb
29 ms $1095 in SCSI or ESDI), I was trying to find out how hard it would
be to get one of these working in a Sun 4/260.  We have the Sun 320 mb
disk (SCSI -> Emulex MD21 -> ESDI -> Micropolis), hence the Sun-3 SCSI ...
inside the pedestal, there is an extra power connector (well -- actually
two - one 4-wire, the other a 2-wire).

1)  Can you hook up another ESDI disk to the Emulex SCSI -> ESDI adapter
2)  Can you attach a SCSI disk directly.

For 1 and 2 -- what cables would be required, where can cables be acquired
(that was one stumbling block I hit!), where / between what would the
cables be installed, and (MOST IMPORTANT ;-) ) how easy is it to cook
something doing this??

I've had a lot of experience hooking stuff into a uVAX, but always bought
things as a kit ...

Thanks!
--

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Subject: Connecting extra drives to 4/260?
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