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What SCSI cable do I need

  • 25-10-2005 8:28am
    #1
    JackieChan
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    Guys,
    I have a SCSI drive taken from a poweredge server and I want to use it in my own PC.
    I have a Host adapater for it but I'm not sure if its possible to get a cable to join the two.
    Them SCSI disk appears to be a 68 pin job and the interface to the card is a 50 pin IDC(I think-It looks like a normal IDE cable would fit in to it). Can I get a cable to join the two?

    My initial thoughts are that you can't do this as the interface on the disk is for a SCSI backplane and that feeds the data aswell as the power to the drive. The disk does not have a seperate 4 pin connector for power and I dont think the host adapter would be supplying power to the disk(but I could be wrong)

    Cheers
    JC


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  • #2
    sutty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,109 ✭✭✭sutty


    More than likely its a 68pin LVD cable you will need to connect to the drive. However the card you have sounds like its an old card (SCSI 1/wide) Rather than Ultrawide, 160, 320. Meaning if you do find a converter for it. Then the drive (if it detects) will be running at a fraction of its data transfer rate.


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
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    JackieChan wrote:
    The disk does not have a seperate 4 pin connector for power and I dont think the host adapter would be supplying power to the disk(but I could be wrong)
    in that case you have an 80 pin connector.
    you can get adaptors for them to covert to 50/68 + molex power connector. SCA? - linkies would be nice if anyone has found decent prices on them

    The drive is designed to hot plug into a backplane that supplies power and data.

    PS. anyone know if you can plug a backplane into a normal 68pin scsi card ?
    eg: very old hot swap server Pentium MMX or something and it would be nice to pop a decent mother board in it.


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