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

[systems_glitch]

Your drive might need high bit termination that simple adapters won't
provide. I ran into this recently with putting a 300 GB SCA drive on an old
SPARC32 machine. Ended up using a Sun UniDisk box and moving it external.
The auto-termination and auto-halfterm (high or low byte only) is a nice
feature.

W.R.T. solid state options, you can still get ACARD SCSI to SATA adapters,
but the prices have gotten really high now that 2SAN owns ACARD -- $2000
per converter. They're super nice though, very high speed. I use them for
critical $day_job stuff.

I see a lot of used ACARD SCSI to IDE converters on eBay for reasonable
money. Those were the thing to have when IDE was current tech, and I bet
you could put an IDE to mSATA SSD bridge on there and get it going.
Something to add to the list to try for myself!

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 3:58 PM Bob Darlington <rdarlington at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The SCSI2SD board was nothing but trouble for me between an sgi indigo2 and
> NeXTStation.  I wish I bought the previous gen.
>
> -Bob
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 11:12 AM William Barnett-Lewis <
> wlewisiii at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:07 PM Patrick Finnegan
> > <pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Unfortunately, that's starting to be obvious to me as well :)
> >
> > I note several version of the SCSI2SD card are out there for varying
> > prices. Is one or the other better? Performance or otherwise?
> >
> > Thanks all!
> > --
> > Live like you will never die, love like you've never been hurt, dance
> > like no-one is watching.
> >                 Alex White
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