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Offline Sparky

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Re: SCSI questions
« on: January 27, 2004, 03:18:41 AM »
Hi there,

If they are Fibre Channel drives then just stick them back on e-bay and get some money back you won't find a converter to get them onto the SCSI bus.
You can put SCSI onto Fibre Channel with an expnsive SCSI-FC bridge but it won't go the other way.

Just to check, what does the connector look like on the rear of the drives, UW/LVD-SE SCSI is fairly easy to spot as it's a D shapped connected with 68way female connector (block with pin holes in it) there will also be the power connector, Fibre Channel is also D shaped but much smaller and looks more like a card -> slot arrangement and only about 20 connectors in there and no molex power connector.

When you do finally get a 68way SCSI disk connect it as follows :

Header 1 - Active terminator
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Header 2 - CyberstormPPC
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Header 3 - Hard drive
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Header 4 or on hard disk - Active Terminator

Easy to do, don't fold the cable to much, don't go beyond 3 foot of cable.

Regards