SCSI mixed 50 and 68 pin question.

[Dennis Ruzeski]

Yes there are adapters, but the bus will only go as fast as the slowest thing connected. My suggestion is to get a card with no boot bios to control the tape and cdrom.

--Dennis



-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Neumann [mailto:dadneumann at adelphia.net]
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 12:21 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: SCSI mixed 50 and 68 pin question. [bcc][faked-from]
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I recently got a cast off Pentium "server". It has a dat tape drive and 
a CD-ROM ... both SCSI, both 50 pin w/ cable to connect them to a 
controller. The only SCSI controller I have is an on board Adaptec 
AIC-7880 68 pin already happily supporting the 2 SCSI drives I have 
running Slackware 9.1. I was hoping to find a 50 pin connector on the 
motherboard to connect these 2 items, but no such luck - too old, I guess.
Is there a way to connect these buggers using something to connect the 
50 pin cable to the 68 pin cable I have?
It seems to me that such a setup might screw up the termination by 
having a "branch line", but it would be easier as all I'd need is a 
single adapter rather than a whole new cable and then more adapters for 
the 50 pin devices (I don't have that many free plugs on the cable).
Sometimes I think I should write the "HOWTO run Linux on leftover 
hardware because you can't afford anything else." HOWTO! ;-)
Probably why I like Slackware, because it still installs on archaic 
hardware!
Thanks, guys!
Greg Neumann