[rescue] SCSI2 to IDE (was: Re: SCSI 50 to 68 to 80 pin thingies)

[nate at portents.com]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:23:29 -0600, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:38:51AM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
>> They also work just fine with hard disks, of course.
> 
> I would kill to have one that I could use with this 64G SSD I have
sitting
> here, in the Mac Quadra 700 that I'm going to use for my MacIvory board
> set.
> 
> Bill

Do you have a PATA or SATA 64GB SSD?  PATA are uncommon (and tend to be
expensive because they were never a common consumer item), SATA are common
and now somewhat cheap.  In fact the price drop on the SATA SSDs convinced
me it would be worthwhile to pick up some LVD SCSI to SATA adapters from
ebay, the ACARD AEC-7730A:

http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?prod_no=AEC-7730A%28OEM%20only%29&type1_title=OEM%20Solutions&idno_no=310

If I had the money for ACARD's latest products, this one looks ideal for
adapting SATA SSDs as SCSI hard drives on older computers, especially old
Macs:

http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=249&prod_no=ARS-2000SUP&type1_title=SCSIDE%20II%20Bridge&type1_idno=11

- Nate