Recommended Cabling (u320)

[Justin T. Gibbs]

> Can anyone recommend a company that makes decent Ultra320 cables to connect
> 2 SAF-TE (GEM318P controller) backplanes (with enclosurement) to a
> supermicro board? Seems the cables we are getting from Supermicro are not
> up for the long haul.

Are you connecting them to the same SCSI channel?  If so, I trust you
are attaching them like so:

Adapter+------+Backplane 1+--+Backplane 2+-Terminator

You can't hook them up like this:

Adapter+------+Backplane 1+-Terminator
              |
              +--+Backplane 2+-Terminator
              |
              +-Terminator

Even in configurartion 1, there are lots of backplanes out there
that fair much worse than a good U320 cable.  You may find that
your backplanes just are not good enough to run U320.

--
Justin