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Maximum Cable Lengths

The total length of cabling (internal and external) on the SCSI bus cannot exceed the maximum lengths listed in the following table. The third column lists the maximum number of SCSI devices you can connect to the SCSI card.

 

 

Maximum

Maximum

 

Devices

Cable Length

Data Transfer Rate

Supported

25 m (82.0 ft)

Ultra160 SCSI (160 MBytes/sec)

1

 

and Ultra2 SCSI (80 MBytes/sec)

 

12 m (39.4 ft)

Ultra160 SCSI (160 MBytes/sec)1

15

 

and Ultra2 SCSI (80 MBytes/sec)

 

3 m (9.8 ft)

Fast Wide SCSI (20 MBytes/sec)

15

3 m (9.8 ft)

Fast SCSI (10 MBytes/sec)

7

3 m (9.8 ft)

Ultra SCSI

4

 

(40 MBytes/sec for 16-bit,

 

 

20 MBytes/sec for 8-bit)

 

1.5 m (4.9 ft)

Ultra SCSI

5-72

 

(40 MBytes/sec for 16-bit,

 

 

20 MBytes/sec for 8-bit)

 

1Mixing Fast/Ultra devices with Ultra160 and Ultra2 SCSI devices causes the entire SCSI bus to default to Ultra SCSI speeds and cable length requirements.

2Ultra SCSI data transfer rates do not currently support more than seven devices connected to the SCSI card.

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