Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:09:17 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: External SCSI device with internal SCSI adapter? Message-ID: <36B609ED.2928CFC1@uk.radan.com> References: <Pine.A41.4.05.9902011014100.14370-100000@goodall2.u.washington.edu>
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"K. Marsh" wrote:
>
> I have adaptec SCSI on my motherboard and an external SCSI Zip drive
> gathering dust. Is there a way I can hook up both external AND internal
> devices to the same internal SCSI adapter?
>
Well, I don't have a definitive answer but I'm in the process of trying
exactly the same thing myself.
I have a SCSI card with wide and narrow internal headers and a narrow
external port. However I'm using both internal ones (wide for the HD and
narrow for the CD) so I can't use the external one. I want to be able to
use an external DAT drive that I can borrow from work so I've managed to
get the bits to make up the following convertor. An 50-pin loop with 50
pin micro-D's out of an old external case, cut it in half and added a 50
pin _male_ connector (that took some finding).
I plan to plug the last connector on the internal ribbon into this with
the CD using the next to the last, mount the micro-D on the back of the
case, un-terminate the CD and use an external terminator.
In theory this should work. I'm hoping to try it out sometime this this
week. I'll let you know how I get on. Meantime maybe this gives you
something to try.
> Kenneth J. Marsh University of Washington
> durang@u.washington.edu Chemical Engineering
>
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