From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 16:15:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F8416A4CF for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:15:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920E843D48 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:15:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp37-107.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.37.107])i0S0FqxC090892; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:45:52 +1030 (CST) Received: from chowder.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0S0FnnY006865; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:45:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Bill Moran , chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:45:48 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <4016D2A1.9060205@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4016D2A1.9060205@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401281045.48243.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: SCSI to ATA adapter? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:15:58 -0000 On Wednesday 28 January 2004 07:35, Bill Moran wrote: > This sounds crazy ... > > I've never heard of such a thing, but every time I tell someone that it > doesn't exist, I find out that someone has gone and made one ... > > Has anyone ever seen such a piece of hardware? Seems like a silly thing to > do, but I can imagine that putting some sort of converter chip in between > would make it possible. Do they exist? Try here -> http://www.acard.com/eng/menu/scside_hot.html ie plug an IDE disk into a SCSI controller. They range from US$59 to US$99 on their web site depending on options. Here's another lot that sell them http://scsi2ide.com/ though they seem more expensive. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5