[rescue] Ok, what kind of SCSI connector is this?

Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366 patrick at zill.net
Fri Aug 1 11:13:03 CDT 2003


On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 12:05:23PM -0400, Earl D. Baugh Jr. wrote:
> I've been continuing to dig thru my pile of SCSI drives (it's amazing how 
> much stuff you realize you have once you have to move it...new houses do 
> that...)  Anyway, I've got two 4gb WD drives (I don't have the model number 
> here) which I'm not sure what kind of SCSI connectors they have.
> 
> It's not a 50 pin.  And it's not the same as on my U2.  And they look like 
> they have a fair number of pins...maybe it's still 50, in two rows...not 
> sure, they're at home, and I'm at work.. Looking at 
> http://www.scsita.org/aboutscsi/Pictures.html doesn't show the connector 

Is it about half the width of the 50-pin connectors?  Is there a
separate plug for power (like most drives) or not (like SCA)?


> types I have.   I was thinking that the U2 had SCA, but then I'm not sure 
> what these would be.   The connector is centered on the back of the drive, 

U2 has SCA.

As a long shot, they could be fiber channel (FC-AL) drives.

--Patrick



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