On Dec 10, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Barry Levine wrote:
Hi
One of the 8GB SCSI HD's on my 8600 G3 is failing. Checking around eBay, I
see 68 pin SCSI HD's for sale; and one can purchase an adapter to go to
the mac 50 pin cable.
I also noticed that there are many larger size 68 pin scsi HD's
Thanks, good info.
Barry
On Dec 10, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Barry Levine wrote:
Hi
One of the 8GB SCSI HD's on my 8600 G3 is failing. Checking around eBay,
I
see 68 pin SCSI HD's for sale; and one can purchase an adapter to go to
the mac 50 pin cable.
I also noticed that there are many
All SCSI-II and SCSI-III wide drives are supposed to be backward
compatible, but may require a jumper to be set differently. I have
several adapters that convert the 80pin SCA drives to be able to use
both the 50pin, or 68pin cables. With SCSI, the slowest drive, or
device on the chain
SCSI was a great interface in it's day.
SCSI over fiber and other serial channel transport means are still in wide
use.
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