19 Mar
2009
19 Mar
'09
5:17 p.m.
well, i did add a caveat.... thanks for the clarification.
b
On Mar 19, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Gary Chase wrote:
This is not true... they switch fine when the cabling
has integrity
and your ID are set correctly. So many people have been doing this
for year and years.... beginning with Han Zimmer when he sampled
the London Phil specifically to be loaded into the Roland
samplers... he had racks of 32 760's going.
Bruce Tovsky wrote:
ken
be aware that most of these switches do NOT support "hot
switching". you will need to power down both s760's (and possibly
the drives), then do the switch, then reboot. caveat: it's been
years since i fiddled with SCSI so newer devices may have become
available that do "hot switch", but double-check to be sure. if
you have to power down, etc. it kind of defeats the purpose of the
switch. i've also heard that you can sometimes connect two devices
to the same scsi drive - go from one s760 to the drive, loop out
of that drive to the second s760. however, i don't know if the
760's allow this or whether there would be other issues with this.
research needed.
good luck
b
On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:28 PM, k2500x _ wrote:
Hi Gary thanks for the reply! I went to the electronic city web
site and did not see any scsi switches. Any idea what model
number I'm looking for and what price I should expect to pay? I
also posted links to two switches below. Do you think these will
work just as good?
Only one of my S760 has the video upgrade so I don't think a
video switch will help me, right?
Thanks again,
Ken
bruce tovsky
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:17:13 -0700
From: chaseman(a)socal.rr.com <mailto:chaseman@socal.rr.com>
To: k2500x(a)hotmail.com <mailto:k2500x@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [sgroup] SCSI switch box?
We've been using 8 760s on 1 SCSI buss for years successfully...
You'll need 2 boxes, 1 for SCSi and 1 for video, both with an 8
selector pot...
You can order them from Electronic City in Burbank if you're in
LA or check your local Radio Shack.
Gary
k2500x _ wrote:
> Using multiple S-760s and was wondering if anyone has
> experience with using manual SCSI switch boxes?
>
> Would like to share one scsi HD with multiple S-760s.
>
>
>
> http://www.cablesonline.net/abcnscsiswit1.html
>
>
>
> Here is one such switch box. This claims to be an actual SCSI
> switch with CN50 cables supported.
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.cablesonline.net/dbabswitbox1.html
>
>
>
> Here is a DB25 box that is usually used for parallel printers,
> but it uses the same DB25 connector that is on the back of the
> S760 so I'm not sure why it wouldn't work.
>
>
>
> Also, is there an actual difference between SCSI and parallel
> DB25 cables? I understand that you should not interface one
> with the other, but is the actual DB25 cable itself different?
> The reason I ask is because parallel cables are so much cheaper.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
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