[Info-vax] danger from HVD SCSI

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <iar5no$51g$03$1 at news.t-online.com>,
	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> Dennis Boone schrieb:
>>  > I've been told that the "easily understood international icon" for
>>  > HVD is different than the one(s) used for LVD or SE, but if it's true
>>  > I can't remember which is which.
>> 
>> And to aggravate the sin of deliberately being a Dennis responding to
>> a post by another Dennis, I'll follow up to my own post.  Shoot me.
>> 
>> Thought to jfgi _after_ hitting send.  This page, and the one it links
>> to as "Next: Low voltage..." at the bottom, have the icons.
>> 
>>     http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/scsi/protDiff-c.html
>> 
>> De
> 
> And if you look at the icons, it's (at least for me)
> very easy to mistake one for the other.
> I mean, who can remember whether that extra angle for HVD
> is within the diamond symbol or outside of it?
> Moreover, it doesn't seem mandatory to display these symbols
> on the SCSI devices. With the exception of some IBM parts
> I have a pile of disks where only googling or guessing
> would tell whether they are HVD or LVD/SE.
> Even worse, the vendors didn't seem to care to clearly
> identify their HVD host adapters.

What would you put on a device that, with various jumper settings, can
be either SE or HVD?  Or at least that's what the INTERNET says, I haven't
had the chance to try any of them yet on my HVD controller.

bill
 

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