[Sunhelp] "PCI SCSI Single Channel Host Adapter Card"

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Stromsoe [mailto:cbs at cts.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 2:08 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [Sunhelp] "PCI SCSI Single Channel Host Adapter Card"
> 
> 
> Does anybody have the "PCI SCSI Single Channel Host Adapter 
> Card" (part
> #X5010A)?
> 
> I need to confirm the number of pins the external connector has (50 or
> 68).  It's not mentioned in the product description at
> http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?catid=43158, and the
> information is somewhat conflicting, given the little that I (think I)
> know about SCSI standards.  It's alternately described as a 
> "SCSI-3, Ultra
> Scsi" device (8-bit transfer, fast scsi, so 50 pins?), and as 

I'm bettings that their saying it support SCSI-3 (which it can't? since it
doesn't exist last I heard) and UltraSCSI.  UltraSCSI is available in both
wide and narrow breeds.

> a "16-bit,
> single-ended, SCSI interface" device (16-bit transfer, wide 
> scsi, so 68
> pins?), and I don't want to order the wrong cable set.  
> Thanks in advance. 

Everything on their page points to it being a 16-bit adapter card.  It can
handle 8-bit scsi with any adapter any way you look at it.  
	Greg