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Re: 2940UW & scanjet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steffen Grunewald)
Sun May 4 14:16:26 1997
From: Steffen Grunewald <steffen@gfz-potsdam.de>
To: bcboy@dorothy.wanglab.brandeis.edu (Brian Craft)
Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 20:13:05 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199705021716.NAA00784@dorothy.wanglab.brandeis.edu> from "Brian Craft" at May 2, 97 01:16:36 pm
"Brian Craft writes"
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|>
|> Hi. Just got a ScanJet, which comes with that wacky little scsi board that
|> everyone's been talking about. My machine has a 2940UW, but I notice in the
|> documentation it doesn't say anything about connecting external 8 bit devices.
|>
|> There's an internal 50 pin port, but no external 50 pin port. Is there no way
|> to connect 8 bit devices externally?
|>
|> b.c.
|>
If you have no devices connected to your internal narrow SCSI port
you are free to crimp your own cable, perhaps ending in a more useful
SCSI connector (the Centronics type one) mounted to a bracket at the
rear of your machine. This short stub shouldn't matter in terms of
termination while open.
I'm running such a thing at the second port of an old 2742 EISA
controller to connect external devices and have them in logical
order _after_ the system disk, but this is 8 bits at each port,
so YMMV...
Good luck,
Steffen
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