[geeks] Scsi connector

[Mike Nicewonger]

on 4/6/02 1:03 AM, Joshua D Boyd at jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu wrote:

> I have a scsi card that claims to be (based on linux boot logs) a Qlogic
> ISP1020.  Actually, I have 2.  One of them takes a scsi2 narrow connector,
> just like the ones on a Sun 411 case.
> 
> The other one, I just noticed today has a different connector.  It seems
> to have the same number of pins, and be about the same size, but it wants
> screws instead of clips, and I can't make the normal Sun411 style connector
> fit onto it because of the screw recepticles.
> 
> Could this be a narrow differential connector?  The only reason I think of
> that is because on qlogic's web site, one of the two cards listed for that
> chip is the Fast!SCSI IQ PCI-D, and the comment says differential ultra.
> 
> Unfortunately, the machine it is in is deeply piled under a stack of other
> boxes, and it will take me hours of downtime to physically inspect the card.
> 
Not likely to be Diff on a standard mini 50 connector. HP was quite fond of
the screw connection as opposed to the clip type. Electrically should be SE
though. But YMMV

Mike N