Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:34:45 -0800 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: je killen <jekillen@prodigy.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 80 pin SCSI hard drives. Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060116183241.02616b70@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <5063f1f750386be6ff253bc614ac096f@prodigy.net> References: <5063f1f750386be6ff253bc614ac096f@prodigy.net>
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At 06:21 PM 1/16/2006, je killen wrote: >I've obtained two SCSI hard drives made by Maxtor that have 80 pin >connectors and no power connector port. >This isn't necessarily relevant to FreeBSD accept that i'm planning >on using them in a FreeBSD installation. >I'm only aware of 50 pin SCSI and 68 pin SCSI. I've tried to contact >Maxtor to get advice on a PCI adapter >and cables to use with these units but haven't gotten a reply. >Can any one give me some info on how to set these drives up hardware wise? > Or if they can be used, maybe I made a mistake getting them, but > they are 18GB 15 k drives and were $75 apiece >from Tiger Direct. two of them will give me 36 GB to use for a web >server /usr and /var partitions. And i"ll use SATA >drives for RAID back up. You need an adapter to use those drives. Something like this: http://www.bixnet.com/sca80pinscsi.html If you look around a bit you can probably find some cheaper. The link above was from a quick search, but there are a lot of places that sell the adapters. -Glenn >Thank you in advance. >JK >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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