WTB: 50 pin SCSI harddrives

[Boudicca]

Are chaps are aware that any Scsi drives can be connected to 50pin connectors regardless of the of drives connector ?

80 pin sca U160/U320 drives can be used, your not restricted to just 50 pin physical. There are plenty of Ex-U160 9gb/18gb drives out there.

I have box with around 200 in.(Sorry not for sale as they contain patient data and are due for crushing)

Edit: Its morning here, just forgot, there is also scsi 3/wide connectors (68pin connectors as well!)

[Boudicca]

@calkster

Sending you an email in a short while.

@Boudicca

I'm aware of all the adapters available, but I want ordinary 50 pin drives. The reason for this is that the drives needs to be mounted on Zorro hardcards, and even with the smallest adapter I have around here, a 69 pin harddrive doesn't fit very well on the hardcards.

Coolio, if for resale understandable. Personal taste really. I wouldn't consider putting a drive back on a hard card as they get way to hot to be hanging around on a piece of pcb. In essence thats why they disappeared from hard cards in the real world, as the failure rate was massive. Good case mount or even external case would be preferable for reliable operation.

[Boudicca]

I use a 36 gig scsi Seagate Cheetah Model # ST336706LC in my a3k with  the 80 pin adapter. Its be working great since I got it around october..  I can only make 4 gig partition's on it. I need a high byte terminator  on it... watching for 1 cheap.  I have three 4 gig partition's on it and  hasn't failed yet ( told it I would get errors). So not doing anything  but whload gaming on it for now. The adapters do work but I think some  80 pin hd's are picky. I have a 9 gig scsi 80 pin out of a compaq and  can't get it to work yet.  too bad. I think to many jumpers and maybe  some conflict's maybe.

lost

A lot the issues with scsi are around the ID and termination. Since Scsi old style is 0-15 and later had 64 I believe (7 bit 8 bit) addressing, as long as you terminate the bus, most scsi drive should work,as the Amiga doesn't care what scsi drive you use. Its a good idea to a pc handy with an adaptec controller to give it a good format and change any drive parameters.

[Boudicca]

You guys don't do this?

http://www.dban.org/

Heck, I'd wipe military drives with it all the time.

Now we know where the wiki leaks came from.

Basically its a trust issue. Shredded and crushed disks can't be read. Wiped disks end up on the "black market" not wiped ! Especially when some one tries to sell the idea of wiped disks or "we'll" wipe them for you and don't!

Dead/Crushed and shredded disks don't haunt governments!