Question about cabling.

[Daniel M. Eischen]

> To simplify the problem I took everything off the bus except the 3
> drives.  I currently have the wide drive off the internal wide
> connector on a pretty long cable (>2 feet), and the two narrow drives
> off the 50-pin connector on a cable of similar length.  Termination is
> set to High:off Low:on.  The drives are barracudas and the drive at
> the end of each cable is terminated.  So, is this setup OK, or are
> these cables too long?  I also saw on the Adaptec site a
> recommendation that all devices be separated by at least 12 inches of
> cable, but that seems to contradict other things I've heard.

Termination should be High on, Low off.  Are you sure you
didn't mis-type the above?

Dan Eischen
deischen at iworks.InterWorks.org