Re: Technically speaking.....

2004-07-30 Thread James / Hans Kunz
you cannot just change wires to get a scsi harddisk to work on a ata system, the internal (burned into the ic on the hd) software protocol is to different plus the formatting gives another headache, you can get scsi to ata convertersJames On 29/07/2004, at 19:30, Craig Ringer wrote: On

Re: Technically speaking.....

2004-07-30 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi People, I need to find out what voltage should be seen on what pins of the 50 way ribbons feeding to the Hard drive in a Mac 7600 box Can anybody direct me to a source of information , please ? Googling for SCSI pinout reveals: http://www.connectworld.net/scsi.html Have fun, Shay --

Re: Technically speaking.....

2004-07-30 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 23:13, James / Hans Kunz wrote: you cannot just change wires to get a scsi harddisk to work on a ata system, the internal (burned into the ic on the hd) software protocol is to different plus the formatting gives another headache. Yes, I'm well aware of that. I don't

Re: Technically speaking.....(Slightly OT)

2004-07-30 Thread Paul
Craig Ringer wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 23:13, James / Hans Kunz wrote: you cannot just change wires to get a scsi harddisk to work on a ata system, the internal (burned into the ic on the hd) software protocol is to different plus the formatting gives another headache. Yes, I'm well

Re: Technically speaking.....

2004-07-29 Thread Robert Howells
Hi People, I need to find out what voltage should be seen on what pins of the 50 way ribbons feeding to the Hard drive in a Mac 7600 box Can anybody direct me to a source of information , please ? TIA Bob

Re: Technically speaking.....

2004-07-29 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 18:33, Robert Howells wrote: Hi People, I need to find out what voltage should be seen on what pins of the 50 way ribbons feeding to the Hard drive in a Mac 7600 box Can anybody direct me to a source of information , please ? You'll want to find the ATA disk

Re: Technically speaking.....

2004-07-29 Thread Craig Ringer
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 19:21, Robert Howells wrote: Thank you ! The idea is right I just need to modify it slightly to SCSI disk interface. Yeah, sorry, I failed to spot ... 50 pins I thought the 7600 was ATA based, but apparently not. -- Craig Ringer