os24u{at}wisdomtree.info wrote:
> ** Reply to note from Mike O'Connor  Fri, 02
Nov 2007 03:41:43 +1000
>   
>>      
>> Top transfer rate on a 2940UW is 40MB/second on the 68-pin channel
 AFAIR. The 50-pin is limited to AFAIR, 10MB/second Drive
>> size on that controller is originally somewhere around 8-9GB with 
early BIOSes, more recent ones 2.57 and 3.10 can handle larger ones, 
>> possibly up to ~30GB or so.
>>     
>
>   Bios is 1.23 and 40MB/second.   Would like 8-20gb drives as larger
is expensive.   Appears a bios update would be a good idea.
>   
Yes, definitely, otherwise you won't be able to get a decent size disk 
in above range. I normally would say I'll send you those two BIOS 
updates, but currently everything here is in a state of flux - hardware 
upgrades - disk problems etc. BTW the 3.10 is a completely different 
animal to the 2.57 and earlier - radically different ROM management. 
Best to do a progressive upgrade.
>     
>   
>> Any 80-pin SCSI disks are either SCA or SCA-2 type, and usually
are  pulls from servers, where they are usually hot-swap drives
>> sitting in  slide-open drawers with a backplane permanently fitted
to the rear of  the drawers' mating enclosure. They are LVD {low
>> voltage differential}  and run faster than SE {single-ended}
designation disks. The 2940UW  takes either type - usually the older ones
>> are LVD/SE, but they need to  have a jumper to be restricted to SE IIRC.
>>   
>>     
>  Nice description of the various scsi interfaces.
>   
I'm running U160, no 2940UW around to check - it died - so I'm not 
strictly sure about the LVD capability bit on that HBA!
>   
>>   
>> That plug on the scanner sounds like a 50-connector Centronics -
sure  it's not 25 on each side? I have an external Plextor 2x CD-ROM
>>     
>
>  Yes it is a db25 scsi1 plug.
>
>         Cal
>   
Hi Cal,

I thought you might have missed my response, as I hadn't seen it until 
now, because my answer preceded your enquiry in my inbox - your headers 
have the following;

Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:33:04 MST

which by my figuring would give me a local time here in Australian 
Eastern Standard Time of 01:33:04 on Saturday 3rd, it's showing up in my 
Thunderbird Inbox originated at 01:33 on the 3rd (my time-date), whilst 
it's currently only 23:48 of the 2nd Nov.

Aha -- just noticed MST not MDT - did you change over the clock early? 
Isn't it still MDT there until early Sunday morning?

Regards,
Mike

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