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Re: SCSI & Wide SCSI devices on same card??

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From: Nigel
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 00:00
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Nick de Smith <nick@nick01.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Two ways of doing this - get a card that supports both busses, e.g. Adaptec 
>2940UW (but see below), or use narrow-wide adaptors on the back of any narrow 
>devices (e.g. CD ROM/DAT drives) that you want to plug onto the wide (68way) 
>cable. The adaptors are back-to-back in style, so take up very little space. 
>Only issue is that any device using them must not be at the end of the bus (as 
>any on-board terminators on the narrow device will obviously only terminate the 
>low 8 bits of the data bus).

<SNIP>

Thanks for the info ... I`ll have to dig into my pocket and buy the Hd and
controller now I think :)

cheers

nigel
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From: Nigel@falken.demon.co.uk (Nigel)
Subject: Re: SCSI & Wide SCSI devices on same card??
Date: 1995/12/07
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