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Re: SCSI drive




I think he was talking about the internal drive, using the internal cable.
I was only able to find one adapter for that, although there should be
others.

Lloyd

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Connor <connormb@cig.mot.com>
To: silug-discuss@silug.org <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: SCSI drive


>
>
>There are three (that I know of) SCSI connectors you're likely to find on
>the back of a SCSI card-- this is an external drive I take it?  At any
>rate, you can find cables with different connectors on each end for any
>combination and everything will work fine.  A SCSI-2 drive will work fine
>on a SCSI-1 card and vice versa.  As I understand it, a SCSI-3 (with the
>right adapters) will work on SCSI-1 & 2 and again, vice versa.  So, find
>a cable that fits the connectors you're dealing and it will work.  SCSI
>devices are pretty nice like that.
>
>Mike
>
>On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Mark Bishop wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I just got this drive and the connector is the type that is on the
>> external part of a SCSI card.  Can someone tell me what type of
connection
>> that is?  I'm trying to figure out what I need so that it can work with
my
>> other SCSI drives that have the 'standard' ribbon cable.  Thanks.
>>
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