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

[Bob Darlington]

I went through every combo of software and hardware termination, testing
with real hardware vs this v6 scsi2sd board, internal and externally
connected devices, etc, finally working with the designer of the board on
potential fixes for the problems I was having and nothing took care of it.
I'm not trying to debug it now.  I'll just buy a v5.whatever board when I
have time to get back into it and will call it a day.   At some point it's
just not worth my time.

-Bob

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 2:08 PM systems_glitch <systems.glitch at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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