- SCSI adapter suitability
- Posted by Lez Pawl on August 18th, 2006
I have an old SCSI adapter card say 1995 (used to run a 1.6g drive), will
this be suitable to run current 150g to 300g drives.
- Posted by Bennett Price on August 18th, 2006
Probably won't work, not because of the size of the new drive but
because it's a different sort of SCSI. SCSI has evolved over the years.
Take a look at the number of pins on your card and the number (and
spacing) of the pins on the new drive - probably completely different.
Lez Pawl wrote:
- Posted by Mike Walsh on August 19th, 2006
If the adapter has only narrow (50 pin) connectors it won't work. If it has wide (68 pin) connectors it will work with some limitations. A newer drives can be jumpers to work in SE mode to match your adapter. You will need an external terminator to have proper termination, as newer LVD drives don't have built in termination. The data transfer speed will be limited to the speed of your adapter. You will have to update the adapter BIOS to support drives larger than 128 GB; I don't now if this is possible with an adapter from 1995.
Lez Pawl wrote:
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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
