[rescue] Axil 311 (SS10) hard drive compatibility

[Robert Novak]

Hi John,

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:28 PM, John Floren <john at jfloren.net> wrote:

> I'm looking at picking up an Axil 311 and wondering if I'll be able to
> find a hard drive to put in it. I have an Ultra320 SCSI disk sized 300
> GB. Is it at all possible that this could be backwards compatible with
> the SCSI in the Axil 311? I don't know much about SCSI interfaces.
>

If you can convert the physical interfaces, you should be able to use any
SCSI drive. SCSI is supposed to be (and in my experience up to Ultra160 LVD)
backwards compatible all the way down from 160 to 5.

I'm guessing you'll need a 50-pin to SCA adapter, which shouldn't be too
hard to find, but some clone makers used different interfaces (Tatung's
Ultra 2 had 68-pin SCSI as opposed to Sun's 80-pin, as I recall) so it might
be either difficult or painfully easy to use an SCA disk.

Rob