You can get a 68 pin drive to 50 pin cable adapter, I have had 100% success
with them. I have even seen many PC's ship with them (yes, I deal with high
end SCSI PC workstations at work).
Get the drive and the adapter. Well worth the couple bucks for an 68 to 50
pin adapter to use that drive. Then when you get the extra $$, upgrade to
the faster SCSI card. All SCSI is backwards compatible, you can always put
a faster SCSI drive on a slower SCSI bus, or a slow SCSI drive on a fast
bus.
Thomas Martin
> From: "Michael S. Macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Power Computing List)
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:47:16 -0800
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Power Computing List)
> Subject: Re: Wil this drive fit, pin wise?
>
> Bob wrote:
>
>> Can someone please tell me if this drive will fit in the drive cables of
>> a Powercurve 601/120? I was looking for a 50 pin connection in the
>> description but couldn't find it.
>>
>>
>> From DealMac:
>>
>>
>> IBM Ultrastar 9.1GB SCSI 10,000 rpm for $40 8:19 am
>> A reader spotted the IBM Ultrastar 9.1GB Ultra2 SCSI 10,000 rpm internal
>> hard
>> drive, model
>> no. 09L3928, for $39.95 at Egghead.com. It's the cheapest 10,000 rpm
>> drive we've seen by far. UPS Ground is a flat $9.95
>>
>> http://www.egghead.com/ShowPage.dll?page=prod_page_p&ItemEDP=202648#PI
>
> Sorry Bob,
> That drive won't connect to your 50 pin SCSI connection because it is
> an 'Ultra2' SCSI device.
> You will need a PCI slot SCSI card and possibly an 80pin to 68pin adaptor
> to use it in your
> machine.
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