10 Aug
2019
10 Aug
'19
10:10 a.m.
On 8/10/19 9:45 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote:
I bought the long cables off ebay, so they have to be
good? Right? I
think the short cables came from a hamfest.
The cables can be fairly long, I remember interfacing a TU80 to an
Emulex QT14 (maybe) and the DEC cables were round and about 15 feet
long.? And it worked.
Of course it did--the TU80 hews to the Pertec inteface spec.
The Qualstar, as I observed, does not. It's basically "Pertec on the
cheap".
It might be interesting if someone with a Qualstar 1xxx series drive
who's using 10' flat ribbon cables can report their success. I suspect
that you'll hear crickets...
The point of the Qualstar drives is that they were cheap--and the design
reflects that.
--Chuck