[3667] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: wide drive on narrow bus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Seefried)
Thu Apr 9 13:05:48 1998
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 12:43:21 -0400
To: Mike Panetta <mike@librarian.lab.realminfo.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Ken Seefried <ken@seefried.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980409120643.14402A-100000@librarian.lab.rea
lminfo.com>
Yes, you can get an adapter to run wide devices on a narrow controller.
They run around $10-$15 arount here. Be aware that many of the cheap wide
drives that I've seen being sold are actually wide SCA connector drives,
which require a different type of adapter, which is more expensive. The
SCA adapters are also somewhat less mechanically sturdy, so be careful how
they are mounted.
Oh, yeah...don't strap a wide drive on a narrow controller to a SCSI ID
above 7.
- Ken
At 12:08 PM 4/9/98 -0400, Mike Panetta wrote:
>
>Is it possable to put a wide scsi HD on a narrow controller with an
>adapter or somesuch? I have noticed that a fiew people have been selling
>wide drives cheaper than the narrow counterparts lately and thats why I am
>wondering.
>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
