[geeks] SCA question

[Rick Hamell]

> When looking at SCA drives on ebay, I keep seeing references to needed an
> 80 to 68pin adaptor to be able to use them.  Are these people just talking
> about an adaptor that splits the SCA into seperate scsi, power and ID select
> cords, or is there something else going on that I need to worry about?  I'm
> looking at buying a large lot of 2, 4, or 9 gig drives with the idea of
> taking what I need, then hopefully being to sell the rest for enough to cover
> part of what I spent.

	That's been my experience yes... these people aren't using the
drives on Sun machines so they need the adaptors. So you can get some good
deals because of that... :)