** Reply to message from "Don{ald} O.
Woodall" on Sun, 06 Mar 2005 19:21:51 -0500

To heck with the elitists!!!!  I've been successfully using SCA
drives with the
adapters full time here for several years now without having any
problems
with either the drives or the convertors.

George


> In Seagate model number info, the last 2 characters tell you that
> "LC" means an 80-pin SCA connection.
> 
>      You want to buy a drive with the last 2 characters of
"LW." This will
> get you a drive with a controller card with the 68-pin connector, the
> regular 4 pin power connector, the SCSI ID jumper pins and other
> configuration possibilities.
> 
>      Now, back to the drive you have.  There are little adapter boards
> around / available that plug into the SCA connector and allow you to plug
> your 68-pin ribbon cable to it.  They are not recommended by the elitist
> SCSI users, but you could use one as a temporary crutch.  I am surprised
> one did not come with your drive.


 
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