[geeks] SCA question

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 18:36, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 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.

Really?  Are you talking about the internal 68-pin connector, or
something else?  That's the only one that I've seen that looks similar,
at least to me.
	Greg

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