[rescue] need a high cap 50 pin Cheetah

Kevin kevin at mpcf.com
Tue Apr 29 22:13:38 CDT 2003


I've got a couple of the adapters but haven't tried them on
the PVR yet.  I see no reason why it would not work, but i'd
rather just get a few 18 gig narrow Cheetahs.  One less
potential point of failure.  Of course an older drive might be
more prone to fail then a newer one..... who knows.

/KRM

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:59:14 +0000 (UTC)
abuse at cabal.org.uk (Peter Corlett) wrote:

> Get a 50-to-SCA adaptor and use a modern drive. I got one
> from eBay for about a tenner, and it worked fine. As for
> performance, the limiting factor was the 10MB/s SCSI bus,
> not the adaptor or drive when I used a 9GB 7200RPM Seagate.



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