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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:19:50 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Person, Roderick" <personrp@ccbh.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI to ATA adapter?
Message-ID:  <4016D5F6.2050106@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B01FB1144@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu>
References:  <4BA256918ACE7449BD7896E65711C88B01FB1144@1UPMC-MSX8.isdip.upmc.edu>

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Person, Roderick wrote:
> Well I never heard of anything like that. Why would you want to do that??

Well, I don't.  But a customer asked, so I figured I'd make sure before I
told him "no".

> Since I was on ebay, I did a search and nothing came up. I did just buy 
> 2 SCA 80 pin to 68/50 pin adapters maybe that what they are meaning.

I'll double-check.  But this fellow is smart enough that he probably means
what he said, and he said ATA to SCSI.

Thanks for the reply.

> Roderick Person
> Programmer
> personrp@ccbh.com
> http://www.ccbh.com
> 
> 
> "The need for maintenance and support is a bug, not a feature."
> - Amanda Walker
> 
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran@potentialtech.com]
>  > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:06 PM
>  > To: chat@freebsd.org
>  > Subject: SCSI to ATA adapter?
>  >
>  >
>  > This sounds crazy ...
>  >
>  > I've never heard of such a thing, but every time I tell
>  > someone that it doesn't
>  > exist, I find out that someone has gone and made one ...
>  >
>  > Has anyone ever seen such a piece of hardware?  Seems like a
>  > silly thing to do,
>  > but I can imagine that putting some sort of converter chip in
>  > between would
>  > make it possible.  Do they exist?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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