General Discussion

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Scsi

Leisha

2002-10-17, 3:39 pm

Hopefully one of you out there can help me. This falls under the title of "Things They Didn't Teach Me In School" (I'm finding out that that's a whole book in itself).

I need to access a SCSI hard drive. I think it's a SCSI2. The cable isn't the really wide (although there are ones like that on this board). This cable is pink, and has a terminator on it that reads Ultra-160. I don't have a motherboard (that works) with a SCSI controller on it and don't know what I need to be able to access this hard drive. If I knew what I needed, I could get one.

Don't laugh....I've never seen SCSI, only read about it and pictures don't tell the whole story (as I'm finding out). Any help would be really appreciated.

Sexy Lexy

2002-10-17, 3:44 pm

If you haven't got a controller then you will need a SCSI card which is an additional card like a video card to control the hard drive. Then it's a case of connecting the Hard drive to the card via the cable.

Hopefully, these should help to determine the type you will need.

http://www.scsita.org/terms/scsiterms.html

And of course:

http://www.startech.com/scsischool/...et=scsiedu2.htm

Hope this helps.

thecomeons

2002-10-17, 3:48 pm

unless you know somebody with scsi, you are going to have to find out what type of scsi connection is on the hard drive and purchase an appropriate interface (ebay?)