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SCSI cable question

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I'm working on my "PROJECT XEON 40GHZ." I have ten dual Xeon motherboards I am going to use to fold for the [H]orde. I just bought some CPUs, memory, and heatsinks / fans. The motherboards have onboard SCSI, of the 160 type.

I'm really new to SCSI. I've never used it before. I just bought an 18 GB SCSI off of ebay. I don't get a cable with the hard drive.

If I go to Newegg and look for a SCSI cable, what do I need to look for? Anything I should know about terminators?

p.s. Most of the motherboards will be run naked without any hard drives using the fold server. But I would like to use one of them as a server, so I got a hard drive.

Please help me because I don't know crap about SCSI.

Thanks!
 
Wow that's speed!



Sorry I know nothing about SCSI, but that's a lot of ghz.
 
Is the SCSI Drive 68pin Wide or 80pin SCA? If it is 68pin, you will need one of there. If it is SCA, you will need one of these in addition to the cable. SCSI cables are expensive. Also, make sure you get one with a terminator.

Also, I have six 18GB SCSI HDDs sitting in a drawer. I will hook you up with them for $20 shipped to your door. They are SCA drives, so you will need to acquire more SCA adapters if you want to put them to use.
 
DougLite said:
Is the SCSI Drive 68pin Wide or 80pin SCA? If it is 68pin, you will need one of there. If it is SCA, you will need one of these in addition to the cable. SCSI cables are expensive. Also, make sure you get one with a terminator.

Also, I have six 18GB SCSI HDDs sitting in a drawer. I will hook you up with them for $20 shipped to your door. They are SCA drives, so you will need to acquire more SCA adapters if you want to put them to use.
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I don't know what kind I bought. It should arrive in the mail this week. Thanks for the offer of more 18GB drives. I'll see what arrives in the mail and let you know.

Thanks again.

p.s. does it matter what kind of SCSI is on the motherboard? all I know about the motherboard is that it is 160 something. I know it is not the 320, which is newer.
 
It should have at least one 68pin Wide Connector on it, which is all you need. SCSI is compatible backwards forwards and sideways. I have U320 drives running on Ultra2 HBAs, three generation gap. I've got SCA Ultra2 drives on the same chain as U320 UW drives. As long as you terminate properly and RTFM, SCSI is extremely robust. Send me a PM or post in Disk Storage Systems if you have more questions.
 
okay, thanks for your help.

RTFM: ? Rolling on the Floor Mad?

thanks again!!

 
Read The Fine Manual.
Substitute other words starting with "F" as necessary.

 
Read the Fine Manual. There is lots of good information on SCSI out there, you may want to check the ANSWERS sticky at the top of Disk Storage to get started.
 
DougLite said:
Is the SCSI Drive 68pin Wide or 80pin SCA? If it is 68pin, you will need one of there. If it is SCA, you will need one of these in addition to the cable. SCSI cables are expensive. Also, make sure you get one with a terminator.

Also, I have six 18GB SCSI HDDs sitting in a drawer. I will hook you up with them for $20 shipped to your door. They are SCA drives, so you will need to acquire more SCA adapters if you want to put them to use.
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I'd be intrested in a few of those drives, They'd make perfect upgrades for my folding servers current set of 4.3gb scsi drives.. *yeah.. you heard me.. 4.3 gb.*
 
If it weren't for SCA-ness, I'd be all over a pair of those... I have a single 9.1gb running in my file server as a boot disk, and it's well on its way to old and feeble and dead. I need to work on that...

Any idea how much SCA->68 pin adapters would run?

 
unhappy_mage said:
If it weren't for SCA-ness, I'd be all over a pair of those... I have a single 9.1gb running in my file server as a boot disk, and it's well on its way to old and feeble and dead. I need to work on that...

Any idea how much SCA->68 pin adapters would run?

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Clicky 1 for $9, 5 for $7 each, 25+ $5 each.
 
Veeb0rg said:
I'd be intrested in a few of those drives, They'd make perfect upgrades for my folding servers current set of 4.3gb scsi drives.. *yeah.. you heard me.. 4.3 gb.*
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What are you complaining about? I'm running a 4.3 gig SCSI as my main drive in my current "main" system. That includes WinXP & the apps I use plus a few games. It's not the most fun thing to do.

I just wish I could get the Atlas 10K 9.1 gig drive to run. I've had the thing for years and have never been able to get it to be recognized properly. I guess I should track it down and check it out again. Although I think I may want to look for a new PSU. I've already got a 4.3 gig SCSI, 14 gig IDE, 20 gig IDE and a SCSI burner in the machine on a 250 or 300 watt PSU. I might be adding an IDE burner also. Throwing another SCSI drive in there probably wouldn't be a good idea. I guess I could go back to an old setup I used at one time and use an old AT PSU to power some of the drives.

 
If you need 68 pin SCSI cables PM me, I've got hundreds of them. I can get them to you way cheaper than buying new ones :)
 
Were you talking about this:


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meh, as long as your address is right in the paypal, you'll get it.. *shrug*
 
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