[Cialug] SCSI Cable inside the box

[David Champion]

Hmmm... really depends on your controller, and the drives you're adding.

Some scsi controllers have multiple channels, like your IDE controller 
has ide0 and ide1. Some have just one channel, but it's shared thru 
multiple connectors, including different sizes and external connectors.

You're probably in an area where you'll have to do extensive research on 
this, or get someone in there who's more familiar with it. Do you have a 
manual for the card? If you look up the model # of your scsi adapter you 
may also be able to find the manual online.

-dc

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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