Seagate Elite 47 Installation Manual page 27

Elite 47 Installation Guide, Rev. B
Figures 6 and 7 show typical drive connections. The following
table lists the maximum cable lengths and number of devices
with single-ended I/O circuits allowed on a daisy-chain cable for
5 and 20 Mbytes/sec (10 megatransfers/sec) I/O data transfer
rates.
Table 4: Cable characteristics for single-ended circuits
I/O transfer
rate
5 Mbytes/s
>5 Mbytes/s
Maximum
number of
devices on line
16
16
Maximum cable
length allowed
6 meters (19.7 ft.)
3 meters (9.8 ft.)
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