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