[geeks] SCA question

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:00:24PM -0700, Rick Hamell wrote:
> > When looking at SCA drives on ebay, I keep seeing references to needed an
> > 80 to 68pin adaptor to be able to use them.  Are these people just talking
> > about an adaptor that splits the SCA into seperate scsi, power and ID select
> > cords, or is there something else going on that I need to worry about?  I'm
> > looking at buying a large lot of 2, 4, or 9 gig drives with the idea of
> > taking what I need, then hopefully being to sell the rest for enough to cover
> > part of what I spent.
> 
> 	That's been my experience yes... these people aren't using the
> drives on Sun machines so they need the adaptors. So you can get some good
> deals because of that... :)

It's just bizarre because most half decent scsi cards for PCs have a connector
that looks a lot like SCA on them.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd