From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sata adapter
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:37:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5066189D.3000501@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209281704.44471.gheskett@wdtv.com>
On 2012-09-28 17:04 (GMT-0400) Gene Heskett composed:
> I have a nearly 30 year old computer that has an aftermarket scsi adapter
> plugged into it. Unforch the scsi2 drives I have are suffering from
> stiction and will only start if given a tap sufficient to break the seal
> between the disks and the heads.
> So, what I am looking for is a scsi2 (50 pin) adapter so I can use a more
> modern sata drive on it.
If you mean to connect an SATA HD to an old SCSI HBA via an adapter, good
luck. SATA, PATA and SCSI2 drives are all IDE drives. I doubt any such
adaptation would be possible.
> Is there such a beast, and if so, where can I buy it in the US?
Exactly what you want to do to make the switch is unclear. If you mean to put
a SCSI card in a modern PC so that you can copy from the old SCSI HDs to
modern SATA drives, then you need a SCSI host bus adapter compatible with the
one in your old computer. If it uses NCR, or Symbios or LSI Logic (e.g. 810,
815, 825, 875), then
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-Symbios-53C875JE-SCSI-Controller-/120260021267?pt=US_Internal_Port_Expansion_Cards&hash=item1c000e4c13
would be one solution.
If you have an Adaptec SBA in the old machine, then you'd need a similarly
compatible PCI HBA with an Adaptec chip, such as
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adaptec-Ultra-Wide-SCSI-Card-AHA-2940UW-/160870373189?pt=US_Internal_Port_Expansion_Cards&hash=item25749f1745
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-28 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-28 21:04 sata adapter Gene Heskett
2012-09-28 21:37 ` Felix Miata [this message]
2012-09-29 10:49 ` Mikael Pettersson
2012-09-29 12:55 ` Gene Heskett
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