Re: How to connect 68pin device to 50pin SCSI bus?

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From: Todd Walk
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 20:47

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BrianChen@GNN.COM (Brian K. Chen) writes:

>Well, you can not connect a 68pin wide scsi device to a 50pin scsi
>bus, period.  You have to buy a new SCSI Host Adapter that supports
>68pin wide SCSI.  (I don't think you can find any software of hardware
>that is forward compatible) ;)

Devices exist that do this.  (I've seen more than one of them.)
Where you can get them is another story... (Try a HD or cable
shop in computer shopper.)

					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu


>goyal@utdallas.edu (Warped) wrote:

>>hello.

>>am i correct in thinking that all I need to connect a 68-pin
>>wide&fast scsi device to a 50pin fast scsi bus is a 
>>50 to 68pin convertor that properly terminates the unused
>>pins, and a 68pin wide scsi cable with 2 connectors(one for
>>the device and the other end attached to the convertor)

>>Also, if this device was going in a scsi chain that
>>consists of the SCSI Host Adapter and a SCSI cdrom,
>>where should I put the 68pin device, or does it not
>>matter? ie-where physically should I put it?  

>>thanks!

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