Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!oucsace!oucs!arp From: arp@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU (John Gordos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Hard Disk Drive Cables (You've scared me!) Keywords: Now I'm worried. Message-ID: <719@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU> Date: 30 Nov 88 01:47:09 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens Lines: 36 After all the chatter about trying to make scsi cables to connect the controllers and drives, I'm suddenly frightened. My wife, (Bless her heart!) is buying me a hard drive for Christmas. I've ordered the GVP impact/2-0 controller mail order, and she's trying to decide what drive to buy me. I'm leaning toward the ST277N, but she may go smaller. I've given her an ad from the November "Computer Shopper" from LYCO COMPUTER BLAH BLAH (big blue add in the middle) on page 3 of 16, they list a series of Seagate drives. Anyway, I've indicated the SCSI drives, and she's free to choose from the list. My tips to her were to make sure it's in stock, AMEX it and ASK FOR CABLES. Herein lies the rub. Am I being naive? Is it impossible to have any Commodore Product use a NORMAL (yeah, define that!) cable? If she does call and ask for cables, what is the likelyhood that they'll work properly? As a software type, I've got little hardware experience, and what I do have is with VAXen, and other CBM products (Can you say $600 VIC-20?). Please, tell me this isn't going to be as difficult as I fear. John -- ======================= ==================== John A. Gordos, III cbatt!oucs!arp SAMI/Burke -or- oucs!crta!gordos