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"The little lost angel" <a?n?g?e?l@lovergirl.lrigrevol.moc.com> wrote in message news:40f88e27.24456609@news.singnet.com.sg
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:16:31 +0200, "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote:
>
> > "The little lost angel" <a?n?g?e?l@lovergirl.lrigrevol.moc.com> wrote in message news:40f51e1e.1132527984@news.singnet.com.sg
> > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:05:11 GMT, "Lil' Dave" spamyourself@virus.net wrote:
> > >
> > > I didn't get any of this sub thread on my ISP until this reply
> >
> > That is because you killfiled me, don't you remember?
> > Short memory span?
>
> I killfiled you? I don't remember doing that to ANYBODY in the first place
> since I generally just ignore them instead.
Right, to all intends and purposes, you killfiled me.
> Plus if I did killfile you, I wouldn't see this post of yours OR the previous one
> which I replied to directly.
Or you just couldn't ignore your curiousity.
>
> Maybe you got the wrong person? Bad memory?
I know who you are and what group you live in and who "loverboy" is.
How is my friend Keith R. Williams these days?
Still his old charming self, is he?
>
> > Yes, apparently your brain completely overloads after reading
> > one sentence and then the next sentence just woozes by.
>
> Do you know me that well to make remarks like this and expect it not
> to be considered offensive? I might but that is no reason to make
> remarks like that on the basis of these few posts.
"just ignore" does the trick for me for being offended.
>
> > > So the question now would be, if I only have one narrow device, ie the
> > > controller, all I would need would be as follows?
> > > Controller -> 50-68pin adapter -> 68pin drive -> 68pin drive -> termination
>
> > Well, that is a definite maybe when you have been told that several times now.
>
> To me it has not been definitely confirmed and I prefer to make sure
> of things like this instead of assuming and getting the wrong thing.
No you don't, when you accepted a picture, FCS.
>
> > > Importantly, I take it that such an adapter for narrow card to wide
> > > drive, (not the normal wide card to narrow drive) does exist?
> >
> > Yes woman.
> > When you see it sitting on your CDRW drive it means that it
> > exists and that it is not just a Fata Morgana.
> > Unless of course you are on drugs and are seeing things that are
> > not there and say you have things that you don't actually have.
>
> Is there again any good reason why I should assume that an adapter
> that will work for 68pin controller to 50 pin drive would do the same
> for a 50pin controller connector to a 68pin without any problem?
Nonetheless you did when someone showed you (just) a picture.
> There're just too many things that "should work this way" according to
> common sense, but don't in reality.
No, there aren't, and I told you why.
>
> While you might be an expert on these SCSI stuff and perhaps know them
> inside out from the protocol to the actual electrical connections.
> But for me, it only make sense to confirm things before buying/trying to
> plug anything in and risk damaging my drives.
Ah, and that is why you came to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage instead
of comp.periphs.scsi, where the SCSI experts live.
And when someone showed you a picture of something that looked of what I
said but in reality had a confusing description when title and description
were obviously different and contradictive, you now felt save?
SCSA-3900T "High density 68F to Internal ribbon 50F"
"Connect a 50 pin device to a 68 pin bus while still terminating the high byte properly.
Hi-byte term is active. Allows narrow drives to be attached to a wide bus."
That one is the same that you have (SCSA-3900) except that it is to
be used on a narrow and terminated device at the end of a wide cable.
Yes, you are indeed "not be the sharpest tool in the shed".
>
> You sir, might be an expert on these things technically and maybe
> everything that made sense in your mind automatically becomes so in
> reality without the need to confer with others. But it would do your
> personal standing wonders if you would keep in mind not everybody
> else is.
Ah, so that is why you came to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage in
stead of comp.periphs.scsi. You need pictorials.
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