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Re: Buslogic & expensive cables...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Tue Apr 7 17:56:43 1998
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:51:07 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: fredl@dutchie.org
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980407143029.18504A-100000@dutchie.dutchie.org>
(message from Fred Leeflang on Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:35:21 -0700 (PDT))
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 14:35:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Leeflang <fredl@dutchie.org>
I recently purchased a scanner with SCSI connection. Then I found out that
my Buslogic card isn't all that convenient, they're using very high
density scsi (even worse that 68 pins SCSI III) as external connector. I
asked around in a few PC shops, and two specialised cable company's, only
one of them all had heard about VHDCI connectors and could make me a
cable VHDCI -> 25 pins SCSI, $100.... For $100 I prefer buying some old
adaptec card or something that has a 25 pins connector on the back. Does
anybody know which SCSI controller that's supported by Linux has 25 pins
connector and is dirt cheap ? Thanks,
That must be a FlashPoint DW.
Mixing 25 pin pseudo-SCSI devices with any real high performance SCSI devices
is generally a bad idea and likely to be quite unreliable. Using a separate
SCSI card is a very good idea in this case.
If you really wanted to do this less expensively, get a back panel 25 pin or 50
pin connector and cable it to the 50 pin internal connector on the DW. But put
all your other SCSI devices on the other channel then.
Also, be aware that some supposedly SCSI compatible scanners only work with
certain host adapters because they violate the SCSI specs in one way or
another. I'd check with the Technical Support for any SCSI card to see if it
is compatible with the specific scanner you have.
Leonard
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