[geeks] SCA question

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Wed Apr 17 16:28:30 CDT 2002


[ On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 15:15:12 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] SCA question
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:07:51PM -0400, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > > Also, whats up with the Seagate ST*NC drives?  They say SCA connector, so
> > > should they just work fine in say a Ultra 1?
> > 
> > If they are SCA, they should just work.  I don't know what else would be
> > "up" with those drives though...
> 
> So basically, SCA is SCA, except for when it is differential?

SCA is a connector option in the SCSI standards.  It doesn't define the
signalling levels or the SCSI protocol level used.....

That's why some of those silly adapter boards also have 50-pin connectors.

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