Re: 68 pin vs. 50 pin SCSI HD?

2011-12-10 Thread peterhaas
> SCSI was a great interface in it's day. SCSI over fiber and other serial channel transport means are still in wide use. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FA

Re: 68 pin vs. 50 pin SCSI HD?

2011-12-10 Thread David W. Morris
All SCSI-II and SCSI-III wide drives are supposed to be backward compatible, but may require a jumper to be set differently. I have several adapters that convert the 80pin SCA drives to be able to use both the 50pin, or 68pin cables. With SCSI, the slowest drive, or device on the chain (c

Re: 68 pin vs. 50 pin SCSI HD?

2011-12-10 Thread Barry Levine
Thanks, good info. Barry > On Dec 10, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Barry Levine wrote: > >> Hi >> >> One of the 8GB SCSI HD's on my 8600 G3 is failing. Checking around eBay, >> I >> see 68 pin SCSI HD's for sale; and one can purchase an adapter to go to >> the mac 50 pin cable. >> >> I also noticed that th

Re: 68 pin vs. 50 pin SCSI HD?

2011-12-10 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 10, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Barry Levine wrote: > Hi > > One of the 8GB SCSI HD's on my 8600 G3 is failing. Checking around eBay, I > see 68 pin SCSI HD's for sale; and one can purchase an adapter to go to > the mac 50 pin cable. > > I also noticed that there are many larger size 68 pin scsi H

Re: 68 pin vs. 50 pin SCSI HD?

2011-12-10 Thread peterhaas
> One of the 8GB SCSI HD's on my 8600 G3 is failing. Checking around eBay, I > see 68 pin SCSI HD's for sale; and one can purchase an adapter to go to > the mac 50 pin cable. There are many such adapters. Usually from the drive to a 2 x 25 = 50 pin header. > I also noticed that there are many l

68 pin vs. 50 pin SCSI HD?

2011-12-10 Thread Barry Levine
Hi One of the 8GB SCSI HD's on my 8600 G3 is failing. Checking around eBay, I see 68 pin SCSI HD's for sale; and one can purchase an adapter to go to the mac 50 pin cable. I also noticed that there are many larger size 68 pin scsi HD's around than the 50 pin - are these 68 pin drives a bit more r