From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Jones Subject: Re: Wide negotiation fails with 80->68 LVD adapter? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:30:29 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DB4E275.BC760EDE@ix.netcom.com> References: <200210210514.g9L5ElYp006401@angle.badbox.com> <20021021163424.GE28914@redhat.com> <20021022032435.GA11986@angle.setup.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexy Khrabrov Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Alexy Khrabrov wrote: > > While I'm on this 80<->68 pins subject, or How to Accomodate > SCA drives, I wonder what SCA backplane means. Is it the > complete SCSI system starting with the controller? Then it > has to have 80 pin internal connector? And Adaptec should > have it? But all Adaptec cards, including Ultra320, are > 68 pin internal/external... I'm a bit confused. Is there > such a thing as 80 pin SCA, PCI SCSI card? With an 80 pin > SCA ribbon inside? Can you guys recommend some good ones? > Getting a PCI SCSI card is an alternative to getting an > external enclosure... Interesting options... > SCA stands for single connnector attachment. It is a super-set of the 68-pin connector and includes power and ID pins. It was designed to allow SCSI drives to be plugged into backplanes. There aren't any SCA cables or SCA/PCI cards. -- Dan Jones "'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But of the two, less dangerous is th' offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense." Pope