From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 15:22:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56B037B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:22:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A10F43E3B for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g9AMMSio002447; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:22:28 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:22:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Bill Moran Cc: Linh Pham , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] SCSI 80 to 68 pin converters, do they work? Message-ID: <20021010222228.GB24603@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20021010142902.J89373-100000@q.closedsrc.org> <3DA5FAC2.8030803@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA5FAC2.8030803@potentialtech.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 10), Bill Moran said: > This is frustrating. We can't tell from either the packaging, or > from the product description, or anywhere else; whether these are > supposed to work with LVD or not. I'm guessing that they're not, or > they'd advertise it. > > > You will probably need a converter that is meant for LVD devices > > rather in order to get the drive to kick into LVD mode. > > Finding these is like buying electronics from the Amish. The product > descriptions don't really tell you, and the service people don't seem > to know. Do you know specifically of any products that we can get > that *will* work? I'm using SCA 80-68 converters from CS Electronics in a couple machines with no problems. Part #ADP-9018 is an LVD adapter, no termination, $35. http://www.scsi-cables.com/sca-adapt.htm -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message