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