[inbox] RE: SCSI mixed 50 and 68 pin question.

[Greg Neumann]

Hmmm... Well, another card sounds too expensive for me to pursue any 
further. Don't know where, but I somehow had the impression that 16 bit 
devices (my HD's) would care not a bit (ha ha!) about whether 8 bit 
devices were on the same cable or not. Probably because they will work 
on the same cable w/ proper adapters.
I don't want to slow down the drive transfer rates. The 40 mb/sec burst 
is just too sweet to sacrifice. The only card I have laying around is an 
EISA (remember that??) that I believe was used to boot a small server 
ca. 1994. It HAS to have boot bios on it. May be worth a look-see. I 
have one ISA slot, but I'm not sure I want to use it on my otherwise all 
PCI setup. Wow! Ancient hardware is such a learning experience!

Thanks for the help!
-Greg Neumann

Dennis Ruzeski wrote:

> 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.
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> --Dennis
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> -----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
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