Re: Ribbon Cabling (was Re: large ide raid system)

2000-01-12 Thread James Manning
$horse='dead'; &beat($horse); [ Wednesday, January 12, 2000 ] Bohumil Chalupa wrote: > ,,Termination`` means nothing else then a resistance at the end of the > cable (each pair) that is equivalent to the cable impedance. And the > impedance depends on the cable geometry (and material, of course).

RE: Ribbon Cabling (was Re: large ide raid system)

2000-01-12 Thread Kenneth Cornetet
Title: RE: Ribbon Cabling (was Re: large ide raid system) You may be thinking of differential SCSI which uses a balanced (and twisted) pair for each data and signal line. In the old days, there was only one flavor of differential, and it was popular at least on Hewlett-Packard 800 series

Re: Ribbon Cabling (was Re: large ide raid system)

2000-01-12 Thread Bohumil Chalupa
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, James Manning wrote: > > > If you cut the cable > > > lengthwise (no, don't cut the wires) between wires (etc.) > > > > I don't know about IDE, but I'm pretty sure that's a big no-no for SCSI > > cables. The alternating conductors in the ribbon cable are sig, gnd, sig, > > g

Re: Ribbon Cabling (was Re: large ide raid system)

2000-01-12 Thread Anton Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 11-Jan-2000 James Manning wrote: > [ Tuesday, January 11, 2000 ] Andy Poling wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote: >> > If you cut the cable >> > lengthwise (no, don't cut the wires) between wires (don't break the >> > insulation on the wires

Re: Ribbon Cabling (was Re: large ide raid system)

2000-01-12 Thread Chris Mauritz
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 11 21:44:29 2000 > > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > If you cut the cable > > lengthwise (no, don't cut the wires) between wires (don't break the > > insulation on the wires themselves, just the connecting plastic) you can > > get your cables to be

Re: Ribbon Cabling (was Re: large ide raid system)

2000-01-12 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, January 11, 2000 ] Andy Poling wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > If you cut the cable > > lengthwise (no, don't cut the wires) between wires (don't break the > > insulation on the wires themselves, just the connecting plastic) you can > > get your cables to be 1/4

Ribbon Cabling (was Re: large ide raid system)

2000-01-11 Thread Andy Poling
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > If you cut the cable > lengthwise (no, don't cut the wires) between wires (don't break the > insulation on the wires themselves, just the connecting plastic) you can > get your cables to be 1/4 the normal width (up until you get to the > connector). I