SCSI to IDE bridges...

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 13:16:58 CDT 2008


Antonio Carlini wrote:
> This sounds like you've tried?
> 
> I recently had a go at putting a 140GB SCA-80 SCSI disk on my
> VAXstation 4000-90 and it didn't want to know. I've not investigated
> very far and it may be something very simple, but it just diudn't
> play ball. Similarly a 68-pin 36GB device didn't work. I do, however,
> have 3 18GB 68-pin SCSI disks working in there quite happily.
> 
> So a simple solution that works in my VS4k90 would be really nice. If
>  anyone has one working in such an environment, I'd certainly be keen
> to know.
> 
> FWIW: I don't care about volume shadowing too much. I just want to
> image all my ODS-2 CDs to a disk. Actually, having gone to all that
> trouble I'd then want to back that disk up to another one that would
> then just sit on the shelf, but otherwise I'm not too concerned about
> backup!

Doesn't the wide drive have to specifically support narrow mode for this 
to work properly?

Peace...  Sridhar



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