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- From: stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang)
- Subject: Re: IDE Drives
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.042021.27527@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:20:21 GMT
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- In article <SKNKWRKS.92Dec13165350@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
- >
- >Not true. IDE drives take a 40-pin connector...and odds are that each
- >of the 40 pins serves some purpose. Attempting to use DB-25 SCSI
- >cables with IDE drives would more than likely ruin both the drive and
- >the controller.
-
- Okay, I was thinking they both used 50 pin connectors. If
- not, then the cabling would have to be different.
-
- Using a SCSI cable should be possible, if the wires are wired
- properly on both ends. This may mean some wire swapping etc. But its
- much easier to find SCSI cables than say and external IDE drive
- connector.
-
- >You can, however, put an IDE drive in a "SCSI" case, replace the SCSI
- >cabling with something that'll work with IDE (perhaps using some sort
- >of high-density connector), and roll it all together.
-
- Yeah, that would be ideal, except then it would take some
- bucks to get the cables made. Maybe if the 40 pins could be condensed
- into 25, and you a straight through db25....
-
- > _/_ Scott Alfter Internet: sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
-
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