most (possibly all) of those won't work in sun4c machines. For example, the
"Happy Meal" Fast Ethernet/wide SCSI controller prevents an SS2 from
booting...
Geoff Reed said:
> get a Wide-Scsi SBUS controller? I've seen 'em relatively cheap on e-pay
> and other locations...
>
> At 11:33 PM 1/15/02 -0600, you 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?
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >Brian L. Stuart
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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