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jester
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2024 3:10 pm    Post subject: How to use old SCSI drives on new mobo? Reply with quote

Some of you may know that a long time ago I built a SCSI only machine: 2x PIII 1GHz, 4 Seagate Cheetah 15krpm U160 HDDs etc

The Dual PIII got laid to rest a while ago, but I still have those SCSI HDDs so I was wondering if there were an external drive cage solution that would hook up to eSATA / firewire / or PCIe that anyone knew of or had experience with


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2024 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a PCI card adapter at the club. Have no idea where it got to. In any case, when I got it, it was quite expensive, but if you can find one, they ought to be reasonable now. I have to add..it was in the tyan Dual server board, which died, so I am not sure if it was for the 32 or 64 bit slots OOPS Been a while. I do have the SCSI HD's though. Like you, I always planed to do something with them ~ sigh.

Funny, I still have the old Novel servers that still work, but of course that is no help.



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2024 6:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Me three on the pile of scsi hdds. Bought 3 of them cheap but never used them.
Seagate Cheetah ST118202LC.



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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2024 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have several, but also two Seagate ST19171WC in the bottom drawer of the cabinet beside the desk where I put them after the last try to find a way to use them <G><



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 12, 2024 3:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Add a 50 pin adapter and drop them into an old powermac? Adaptec has made some decent pci based ultrascsi stuff for years. And a company called Siig seems to offer unusual conversions (RS232 to Bluetooth?). Other than that..... http://www.pacificgeek.com/



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2024 12:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should be able to find cables at your favorite techno site. I found one via google http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=326605&cats=117&catid=644%2C117



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2024 2:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Interesting!



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2024 8:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bdquick wrote:
You should be able to find cables at your favorite techno site. I found one via google http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=326605&cats=117&catid=644%2C117

It says that item is no longer made. Sad



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2024 1:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lynch wrote:
bdquick wrote:
You should be able to find cables at your favorite techno site. I found one via google http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=326605&cats=117&catid=644%2C117

It says that item is no longer made. Sad


Well that will teach me to read. They will still let you add it to your cart though. TigerDirect still has PCI cards at least. Somewhere surely still has the cables too. I did check a couple of other online sellers that were out of stock too. Might be one one eBay too.



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PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2024 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh my, this'll take some reading but really, thanks everyone

right now the data is more valuable than the drives ... yep, take a couple of seconds ... welcome to the information age

... and that my concern lies with data I can't get to instead of food or shelter speaks volumes about how fortunate I am



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