Advice on disk purchase?

[Brian Ristuccia]

On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:37:44PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> Which LVD should I get to put on my 50-pin 2940U controller (with
> adapter):  ST39173LW or ST39173LC ?
> 
> LW = 68-pin Wide SCSI connector, low-voltage Differential 
> LC = 80-pin Single connector SCSI connector, low-voltage Differential 
> 
> So LW looks to fit a regular wide cable.
> What's this 80-pin connector on LC?  Is this the new wave?
> 

That's SCA or something similar. If you buy that one you'll need either an
adaptor/special cable, or an enclosure / hotswap bay that incorporates one.

The 80 pin connector incorporates power, SCSI, as well as some pins that are
used in place of jumpers for termination, SCSI ID, etc.

-- 
Brian Ristuccia
brianr at osiris.978.org
bristucc at baynetworks.com
bristucc at cs.uml.edu

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