[Cialug] SCSI Cable inside the box

[Stuart Thiessen]

I should clarify the blue-gray cable is inside the SCSI box. It uses 
regular SCSI external connectors (like parallel) to connect the SCSI 
box to the server.

Stuart

On Aug 31, 2005, at 11:48, Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> This particular server was donated to us so I am learning as I go ... 
> ;)  This is the first time I have had to do any maintenance on it so 
> that is why I am working on it. You'll have to forgive my lack of 
> technical terminology. I tend to work more with software and scripting 
> and things, not so much the hardware side of things. My friend does 
> more with that, but he is out of town so I am up to bat. :)
>
> Anyway, it is the server itself and a box with several SCSI hard 
> drives with several power supplies and one external connector that 
> uses a grayish blue cable that looks a lot like IDE cable but the 
> connector is wider. On the server itself, I have a SCSI card of course 
> and it has an internal connector on the card, but no cable.  I am 
> assuming it uses the same kind of internal cable that the SCSI box 
> uses. That was what I was looking for.
>
> I am aware the SCSI's need to have proper termination, but I had 
> assumed (maybe wrongly) that the system assigned the ID's. I will look 
> online to understand more.  I have one IDE to add and one SCSI to add.
>
> The other SCSI's are in the box but all the connectors for the first 
> internal cable are all used up. So I thought I would use the internal 
> connector in the server box to add one more SCSI and then add the IDE 
> in the server and then see how it goes from there.
>
> I don't know if that makes sense, but that is my best explanation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
> On Aug 31, 2005, at 11:41, David Champion wrote:
>
>> If you can give an exact description some of us may have spares 
>> they'd part with.
>>
>> For instance, does the connector have square corners, 2 rows of 25 
>> pins (total of 50)? Or does it have angled corners and 68 pins? Is 
>> the cable a flat grey ribbon cable just like an IDE cable, or does it 
>> have colored  wires that are kind of braided?
>>
>> Hint - instead of counting the pins, look on the connector for the 
>> drive, it should be labelled.
>>
>> Also... do you know about scsi ID#'s and termination? You'll have to 
>> make sure you're doing that right. If not, google for it... :)
>>
>> -dc
>>
>> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>>> I am working on my server. It has SCSI drives and I am wondering if 
>>> any of you know of a place locally that carries the internal cables? 
>>> I found another SCSI drive I wanted to hook up in there but I need 
>>> another SCSI cable. Forgive my lack of precise terminology, but it 
>>> looks like the IDE cables inside the server, but it is for SCSI. Do 
>>> you know where I can find it?
>>> I called CompUSA, DIT, Office Depot, but none of them carry it.  If 
>>> no local sources, I will order online. But I was hoping there would 
>>> be a place locally where I can find that cable.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Stuart
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