"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2009-05-19, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Do you need some SCSI drives? I may have a few left.

Thanks, but I've got plenty of SCSI drives (2 GB up through
about 50 GB) in the more common 3-1/2" and some still in the 5-1/4"
sizes.

What I need for the Tadpole is something like 2-1/2" SCSI drives
(which of course means that the connector is non-standard for SCSI
drives, because a full 50-pin IDC SCSI drive connector is longer than
the width of the drives. The only maker I have found still in
production is one with IDE drives with a converter module which all fits
where the drive would normally go.

And these days, I'm using quite a few FC-AL (Fibre Channel
Arbitrated Loop) drives.

Thanks,
DoN.


No problem. I don't have anything that uses SCSI these days. I did
find an old Plextor PX--W124TSe external CDROM/burner while looking for
the other drives. I did find a Quantum Viking 9.1 GB drive, PX09L011
that I got from a computer store that was closed a couple years ago. It
uses the smaller 68 pin connector. I have a similar drive I pulled from
a dying HP XP system with a bad motherboard. It was a secondary drive,
with a PCI controller card. I don't know if I should hang on to them,
or give them away.


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