[nycbug-talk] sca adapter?

Charles Sprickman spork at bway.net
Mon May 4 19:05:55 EDT 2009


I'm set!  The old Dell with an sca backplane and a gentoo boot cd is 
working out so far.  Shockingly that old 500MHz beast is saturating our 
metro-e connection.

Charles

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Alex Pilosov wrote:

> We (pilosoft) have lots of these. George knows how to find us. :)
>
> -alex
>
> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 4 May 2009, George Rosamond wrote:
>>
>>> Charles Sprickman wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm in need of an SCA (80 pin) to 68 pin scsi adapter.  Is there anyone in
>>>> Manhattan that would stock such a thing?
>>>>
>>>> It's one of these doohickeys:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ritzcamera.com/product/EP5111582.htm?utm_medium=productsearch&utm_source=google
>>>>
>>>
>>> *maybe* cables and chips on fulton street downtown.
>>
>> No such luck.  Funny, the guy said that SCSI is "old fashioned" and they
>> don't really have much call for SCSI anything these days.
>>
>> The annoying thing is that I have one at home that is in a box somewhere,
>> probably mis-packed during a move.  A client sent it to me along with an
>> Adaptec 2940 to just do drive testing before RMAing dead drives...
>>
>> I did just dig up an old poweredge 4300 which has SCA drive bays.  I think
>> this might be the ticket.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> C
>>
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>>>
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