[SunRescue] 2nd hard drive in Tatung SS20 clone?

Michele Stuart mds at heretical.net
Wed Oct 25 23:18:09 CDT 2000


Found it.

>From  http://www.seagate.com:80/support/kb/disc/scsirev.html

SCSI Narrow

      This term refers to the 1 byte wide data bus on a 50-pin parallel 
interface
      that is defined in the ANSI standard SCSI-1 (X3.131-1986).  The narrow
      bus consists of 8 data lines with parity, a series of control lines 
and the
      matching ground lines.  Seagate designates a narrow SCSI interface with
      an "n" in the model number.

They even had a picture, which made it all much more clear to me. Apparently
I hadn't searched quite as thoroughly as I'd thought.  It really does look 
quite
different from what I envision when I think "SCSI", which is typically 
something
more along the lines of  the SCSI-II interface that the external cdrom drive is
hooked to.

I thank you all who replied to me. I appreciate it.

Michele


At 10:48 AM 10/25/00, you wrote:
>and its not the same as the connector that runs to the installed ST15230N?
>
>-wu
>
>
>>From: Michele Stuart <mds at heretical.net>
>>Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>>Subject: Re: [SunRescue] 2nd hard drive in Tatung SS20 clone?
>>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:37:53 -0400
>>
>>Sadly,  yes. There is a floppy drive installed, but the bracket in this
>>particular position is entirely internal. Perhaps it is a connector for
>>something other than a hard drive though; I was assuming hard
>>drive because there's a drive bracket installed there, as well a
>>power-coupling.
>>
>>Thank you for the response.
>>
>>Michele
>>
>>
>>At 03:20 AM 10/25/00, you wrote:
>>>Sure that is not the floppy connector? 34 pins.
>>>
>>>Mike N
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Michele Stuart" <mds at heretical.net>
>>>To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 1:31 AM
>>>Subject: [SunRescue] 2nd hard drive in Tatung SS20 clone?
>>>
>>>
>>> > Hi, all.
>>> >
>>> > I have Tatung CompStation 20SL. When I open it up,. I see it's one hard
>>>drive,
>>> > which is a Seagate ST-15230N (Hawk 4). It's listed on Seagate's specs 
>>> page
>>> > as having interface: SCSI II/ASA II.
>>> >
>>> > Next to is a bracket for another hard drive (I assume) that has what 
>>> looks
>>>for
>>> > all the world to me like an IDE connector. Since I don't see how that can
>>>be,
>>> > can anybody tell me what kind of connector this is? I've been searching
>>>the
>>> > web for info on the various SCSI interfaces and haven't found one that
>>>looks
>>> > like it. The connector itself has a tag on it saying it's made by 3M, if
>>>that
>>> > helps (it hasn't helped me any).
>>> >
>>> > Thank you!
>>> >
>>> > Michele

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Michele Stuart
mds at heretical.net

         "Connie quite liked the life of the mind, and got a great thrill 
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