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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!relief!jjfeiler
- From: jjfeiler@relief.com (John Jay Feiler)
- Subject: Re: CDRom drives/3.0 from NeXT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.044738.4298@relief.com>
- Sender: jjfeiler@relief.com
- Reply-To: jjfeiler@relief.com
- Organization: relief consulting
- References: <dillon.0t3u@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:47:38 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <dillon.0t3u@overload.Berkeley.CA.US>
- dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
- > I kinda expected when I bought this package deal from NeXT that they
- > would ship everything necessary to get the thing up and running, but
- > when my CD-Rom finally arrived I found that it did not contain a SCSI
- > cable or terminator! Now I have to wait another few days to get the
- > proper cable.
- >
- > Since no one has complained about it on the Net I feel as though I
- > missed something... were people expecting to have to buy the cabling
- > necessary to get the CD-Rom drive working as a separate item? I was
- > expecting, it being bundled by NeXT and extremely useful (NOT!) without
- > a means to connect it to the slab, that the cabling would come with it.
- >
- > Post to the net please, this is just a casual query.
- >
- > -Matt
-
- Since there are (at least) two different cables which you might possibly need
- (SCSI-2 to SCSI-1, if it is the only external SCSI device you have, or SCSI-1
- to SCSI-1, if you are daisy-chaining them) and since you may or may not need
- a terminator (my DAT is terminated internally, for instance), NeXT can't know
- what else you need. Also, you can find cables/terminators at far better
- prices than NeXT's if you look around.
-
- It would be nice, however, if when you placed an order (by phone at least)
- the people taking the order were prompted to say something like "are you
- going ot need a cable with that?"
-
-
- > --
- >
- > Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US
- > 1005 Apollo Way uunet.uu.net!overload!dillon
- > Incline Village, NV. 89451 ham: KC6LVW (no mail drop)
- > USA Sandel-Avery Engineering (702)831-8000
- >
-