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To: BeachBum who wrote (6043)	1/18/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: David Colvin	Read Replies (4) of 10072

OT (a little) For those remotely interested in my little new SCSI Zip drive saga, contrary to some's advice I went out and bought a SCSI adapter (about three inches long) that has a 25-pin female connector on one side and a 50-pin male connector on the other side. It cost me $16. Wow, SCSI stuff is expensive! I then plugged my new pure SCSI external Zip drive's (not a Zip + drive because of potential daisy chaining problems) data cable, with 25-pin male connectors at both ends, into the back of the Zip drive at one end....and into the adapter at the other end. I then plugged the 50-pin side of the adapter into the back of my external 1 Gb Jaz drive. The SCSI ID for my Jaz drive had been set to 4 from the factory and the ID for the Zip drive had been set to 5, so no problem there. I turned my computer on and...voila!, it saw the SCSI Zip drive right away....no muss, no fuss. I really wasn't surprised though. Both the Zip and Jaz drives appear to be running fine. An added bonus is I can now print a file from my Zip drive!....can't do that from a parallel port Zip drive. The only disturbing thing about all this is the following instructions contained in the SCSI Guidelines section of the Iomega Users Guide. The instructions say: "For any SCSI chain, the combined chain length (the total of all cables in the SCSI chain) should not exceed 6 meters (19.6 feet). The fastest device (comparing data transfer rates) should be last (farthest from the computer) in the chain." What?? My SCSI Jaz drive is definitely the faster of the two devices and is plugged directly into my Iomega Jaz Jet SCSI card, and is nearest to the computer. If I were to follow the instructions, I would have to go out and pay $40 for another SCSI cable (I checked the price out) and plug the Zip drive directly into the Jaz Jet card, then plug my Jaz drive into the back of the Zip drive. I'm no SCSI expert, and am inclined to leave things the way they are. Any of you SCSI geniuses out there have any comments? I'd love to hear 'em. Dave

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