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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: JohnFante on January 28, 2013, 11:45:39 AM

Title: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: JohnFante on January 28, 2013, 11:45:39 AM

My SCSI drives are not that stable anymore. I am therefore considering byuing a SCSI to SATA converter.

Anybody have any experieces with that kind of converters?

I am specifically considering this one - or something similar:

http://www.addonics.com/products/adsalvd160.php

Thank you in advance.

Title: Re: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: Iggy on January 28, 2013, 11:53:42 AM

Quote from: JohnFante;724395

My SCSI drives are not that stable anymore. I am therefore considering byuing a SCSI to SATA converter.

Anybody have any experieces with that kind of converters?

I am specifically considering this one - or something similar:

http://www.addonics.com/products/adsalvd160.php

Thank you in advance.

I have a few 18GB SCSI 2 Wide LVD and 74 GB U320 drives I could let you have cheap if that would help.

Title: Re: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: JohnFante on January 28, 2013, 01:48:26 PM

Quote from: Iggy;724397

I have a few 18GB SCSI 2 Wide LVD and 74 GB U320 drives I could let you have cheap if that would help.

Thank you, but I think I will go away for SCSI drives the next time I have to change. They are simply to noisy compared to modern drives :-)

Title: Re: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: smf on January 28, 2013, 01:57:53 PM

I'm not familiar with the adaptor you listed there but i have seen quite a lot of people use adapters from acard with their amiga.

Title: Re: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: Iggy on January 28, 2013, 02:30:45 PM

Quote from: JohnFante;724416

Thank you, but I think I will go away for SCSI drives the next time I have to change. They are simply to noisy compared to modern drives :-)

I can understand that.
10 and 15K rpm drives are a little noisy (I just like the throughput).
And I could let you have a drive at a price that is a lot cheaper then the adapter you're talking about.

Title: Re: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: matt3k on January 28, 2013, 05:35:41 PM

Hi John,

I put one in a 3000 with an SSD.  They do work fine, although the Acard ARS-2000SUP I used refused to work with the Warp Engine SCSI, but works awesome on the 3000D (aka 2091) SCSI.

Will need all latest updates of the scsi.device to work well (for large disks that is).

All you will need to do is to replace the loud ps fan for a silent Amiga!

Here is the link to read:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62547

Title: Re: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: Lurch on January 28, 2013, 06:09:13 PM

Why not just get a SCSI card reader from Mechware :-)

http://a4000t.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=180

Title: Re: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: LoadWB on January 28, 2013, 06:39:21 PM

If you can hang on for about a week, I ordered a narrow SCSI to SATA adapter for use in a Sun 20 that I'm going to also test in my 2000 with GVP SCSI card.

Title: Re: Any experiences with SCSI to SATA converters
Post by: JohnFante on January 28, 2013, 07:02:35 PM

Quote from: Lurch;724455

Why not just get a SCSI card reader from Mechware :-)

http://a4000t.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=180

:-) very nice. That would be a nice additition.

Quote from: LoadWB

If you can hang on for about a week, I ordered a narrow SCSI to SATA adapter for use in a Sun 20 that I'm going to also test in my 2000 with GVP SCSI card.

Great. I am in no rush. :-)

Quote from: matt3k

I put one in a 3000 with an SSD. They do work fine, although the Acard ARS-2000SUP I used refused to work with the Warp Engine SCSI, but works awesome on the 3000D (aka 2091) SCSI.

Will need all latest updates of the scsi.device to work well (for large disks that is).

All you will need to do is to replace the loud ps fan for a silent Amiga!

Ok. Thank you. Nice to know :-)