[rescue] swap 36 gb SCA drive for 72 gb SCA?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019, 12:57 William Barnett-Lewis <wlewisiii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just as a follow up, I did find a listing of the pins on the jumper
> pad for the drive. The only possible one was to force single ended
> operation and that still did not make the drive visible.
>
> My next thought is to try a different adapter on payday and see if
> that changes the equation.
>
> The other possibility would be if I can find an external box but the
> connector on the back of the Alphastation is narrower than any cables
> I have - IIRC it was a unique to DEC 68 pin connector that looks like
> normal wide SCSI. You can see it on this photo of the motherboard
> here: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/232348775368-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
>

I've found that some larger SCA drives won't work with older systems (I'm
unsure if it's the single ended requirement, or them not working with a
narrow bus).

Your best luck would probably be a SCSI2SD adapter and large SD card, if
you need the capacity.

Patrick Finnegan