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bigparsnip
05-01-2002, 06:34 AM
I already have an adaptec ultra 2 scsi card, with a 50 pin conector on it, but I was looking to see if is possiblt to use this card to connect to a SCA drive (using an adapter) and get it to work ok.

I was just wondering as the SCA drives are usualy going very cheep on e-bay, and I would like a new drive.
Peter M
05-01-2002, 07:16 AM
The SCA connector is the hot plug SCSI thing. Power, ID jumpers and Wide-SCSI signals all on one connector. There are adapters to non-hotplug standard 68-pin and normal drive power connectors, with jumpers for the drive's SCSI ID.

These adapters aren't quite cheap though. (But some SCA drives ship with one anyway. Read the fine print :))

regards, Peter
Peter M
05-01-2002, 07:17 AM
Oh, btw, an Ultra-2 SCSI card should have the 68-pin connector only. The legacy 50 pin connector does not appear on SCSI channels faster than Ultra. If you have one on your U2 or U160 card anyway, then the card implements a segmented SCSI bus with an electrical separator chip to allow connecting legacy SCSI devices to the U2/U160 bus, or if it's a really neat card, it has two separate SCSI channels, one U2 and one legacy.

regards, Peter