13 Jan
2009
13 Jan
'09
8:21 a.m.
You wrote:
The HVD bus is designed such that if you plug it into
a SE bus it will
go into reset and go passive. There is a signal DIFFSNS on the HVD
that
will disable the bus. Not good, but better than nothing if you
mess up
and plug them together.
DIFFSENS is a nice idea, but some drives don't implement it. I've
had differential drives go up in smoke because of this. Granted this
was a long time ago (1993) and the drives were small (600MB?), so
this was more in the days of creative interpretation of the SCSI
standard.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL