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From: "Frank Brand" <fbrand at uq.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Scuzzi cables
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:58:57 +1000
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Do you have a SCSI card as Paul implies? I suspect a cheaper card (Adaptec
1542) would do the job. Don't get a 1520 or similar if you want to boot off
SCSI. Some cards do not have a bios and are non-booting and for peripheral
use only (eg to run scanners). You may also need terminators too if you are
using more than one drive on a cable although termination may be able to be
enabled on the drive


Actually there are several types of SCSI interface but the 400 Mb drives
would probably be the 50 pin SCSI 2 interface (there are 68 and 80 pin, SCSI
3, Ultra SCSI etc etc). I have a spare cable you can have if you want to
contact me. I suspect the "printer" interface you mean is the "tongue and
groove" type and you want the tongue bit. I have a cable with the "groove"
bit (Jeez don'tcha just love technology...the jargon is kewell). I have a
cable with the "tongue" but it belongs to a SCSI scanner so is not
available. {I know there are wonderfully technical terms for this stuff. I
think it is, as Robert Brockway says, a male and female 50 pin Centronics
interface}

As Paul suggests...the cables you want are verrrrry expensive and, if you
need to buy them, it migh be cheaper to buy a new IDE 20 Gb HDD...sometimes
older hardware is more trouble than it is worth.

>Ummm, you _do_ know that you need a SCSI interface to talk to these
>drives, don't you?  Computers all come with IDE interfaces built into them
>these days, but only high end motherboards come with SCSI built in.
>Otherwise you'll need a SCSI card as well as the cabling.
>
>(BTW the cables are NOT cheap.  Probably worth more than a 400MB drive.



Frank Brand


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