19 Dec
2012
19 Dec
'12
1:52 a.m.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Jim Stephens wrote:
[...]
Hard drives turn into bricks if you degauss them
because they need a servo
track recorded on one track to function. SMD drives which are the next older
large drive could record with self clocked data, and later 5 1/4 drives such
as the first Tulin 40mb drive had something called embedded servo which could
be restored with a program.
[...]
Perhaps I've missed the point, but what exactly does this have to do with
extending SCSI?
>>>>> Purely out of curiosity, is anyone
aware of the possible existence
>>>>> of LVD/SE SCSI (e.g. HD68) over UTP (RJ45) extenders?
As a note: I don't think it's a good idea to extend with unshielded TP.
I'd rather use Cat7 (standard nowadays) or at least S/F-TP.
Christian