On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 blstuart_at_bellsouth.net wrote:
> I'm going to claim this is on topic since it's for my SPARCStation2
> which is 10 years old.
>
> To make a (semi-)long story short, I've come to the conclusion that I
> need a SCSI1 to SCSI3 adapter with high byte termination to connect a
> wide IBM SCSI drive to the narrow SCSI controller in my SS2. The only
> IDC50M to MD68M adapter I've found doesn't have the termination.
> There's a nice little adapter out there but it's got female connectors
> on both ends. I could try to assemble something with gender changers,
> but I'm afraid I'd end up spending more than I did on the drive for a
> Frankenstien that I'm not even sure would work.
>
> So my question is, does anyone know where to find an adapter with male
> connectors? Or, for that matter, has anyone dealt with this sort of
> thing and have a better suggestion?
See the comp.periphs.scsi faq, located here:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/scsi-faq/part1/
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/scsi-faq/part2/
Your question is answered in part 1 of the far in the section
"Can I connect a WIDE device to my narrow SCSI host adapter?"
If you find the faqs.org resources to be helpful, please see:
http://www.faqs.org/save_faqs-org.html
-Toth
Received on Wed Jan 16 2002 - 00:08:59 GMT