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Re: SCSI -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexandre Maret)
Mon Sep 16 09:42:41 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 14:19:12 +0200
From: Alexandre Maret <amaret@infomaniak.ch>
To: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
CC: LINUX-NET@vger.rutgers.edu
Drew Eckhardt wrote:
>
> In message <9609152033.423ca038.CCC@INET.champlain.edu>, BUTTLES@inet.champlain
> .edu writes:
> >SCSI has a very short cable length, right?
>
> It depends on what you mean by "SCSI" and "very short". SCSI-II allows for
> a 6 meter cable length in single ended installations; and 25 in differential.
I'm *very* afraid of what cost a 25m differential SCSI cable...
do you have an idea ? Considering the price of the cable
needed to connect machines with this may make the whole thing
overpriced, unless packing them in a small room, or in a
rack.
alex
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