[Ham-Mac] 80-50 pins SCA adapters

[KD5NWA]

LVD drives can be connected to a non-LVD cable and will work fine, they are=
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made to work either way. Make sure thought that you terminate the end of=20
the SCSI cable.

I also have a 8100 among other MACS (8 of them) and I refuse to get rid of=
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it because I have a video compression board that connects to the video=20
capture board, and with a 9 Gig LVD drive I put inside it captures 640x480=
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video at 30 FPS without missing any frames, love it.

By the way where did you find the $10.00 adapters?

Cecil
KD5NWA

mailto:KD5NWA@CBayona.com

At 12:18 PM 4/7/2003, you wrote:
>I am in the process of upgrading a couple of old Mac. The first one is a
>Umax J700 and the other is a PPC 8100. I am thinkikg about putting at least
>one Seagate 9.1 gig HD in each of these computers. Since I have five of
>these drives, I might put 2 in each computer and the last one in an=
 external
>SCSI case.
>
>The problem I have is that the drives are 80 pins while my Macs are 50=
 pins.
>I have been looking around on the internet for adapters. I=B9ve got 2=
 problems
>with the information I found:
>
>1. Some people tell me that I need a 80-50 SCA adapter with LVD (whatever
>that means) while others tell me that a simple 80-50 SCA adapter will do=
 the
>job.
>2. I found the regular SCA adapter online at around US$ 10 while the other
>adapter (with LVD) sells for at least US$ 20. Those prices are ridiculous !
>I paid less than US$ 50 for the 5 drives and now I will have to pay double
>that for the adapters !!! No way.
>
>Could someone tell me if the LVD feature is mandatory for these adapters to
>work ? If so, does anybody knows a seller that will not ask outrageous
>prices for the adapters ?
>
>Finally, if someone has similar capacity 50 pins drives, could there be an
>exchange ? Please let me know.
>
>I am doing this for fun. I guess I should have checked the prices before
>buying the drives. Oh well...
>
>73 de VE2JPT
>Jean-Pierre
>
>
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