Subject: Re: new 2.1 packages
To: Joshua Coombs <jcoombs@gwi.net>
From: AlbaClause <you@cogeco.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/17/2006 18:10:40
On Thu, 2006-03-08 at 16:46 -0400, Joshua Coombs wrote:
> > Good grief!  That's bigger than I have in _any_ of my computers!  Do 
> > a few bulk builds, do you?  :)  But I thought SCSI-IDE converters 
> > were fairly expensive in their own right.  What about those 68-50 
> > pin SCSI converters, are they reliable?  Occasionally I get 68-pin 
> > SCSI drives that I can't use in my Macs.  For that matter, I'd need 
> > converters for SCA drives too.  I don't have that kind of money to 
> > dump into a hobby.
> 
> I used a SCA to 50 pin adapter sucessfully in my SE30 with a 36gb 10k 
> RPM drive for quite awhile.  Worked good.
> 
> Joshua Coombs 
> 

I have two 9GB 68-pin drives in my SGI Indy at the moment, and they're
working flawlessly with the oft-maligned 68 --> 50 pin SCSI adapters.  I
had been using the drives in a PowerMac 9500 and 7300 previously with
absolutely no problems.   My Indy is used as a combination web
server/NFS server, so it's powered up 24/7.  I've had absolutely no
problems with using these adapters.


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