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This is likely a misplaced question, but is there a difference between SCSI
cable connexions and IDE connexions? I've searched and found lots of other
technical info, but not what I'm looking for. I've got this (SCSI?) card
that doesn't quite fit the cables for the IDE drives. I don't know if it's
just been packed away a long time and shiny from never being used, or ....
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tom wrote:
> This is likely a misplaced question, but is there a difference between SCSI
> cable connexions and IDE connexions? I've searched and found lots of other
> technical info, but not what I'm looking for. I've got this (SCSI?) card
> that doesn't quite fit the cables for the IDE drives. I don't know if it's
> just been packed away a long time and shiny from never being used, or ....
>
>
>
They are completely different. Don' try to connect one to the other, a
Really Bad Thing TM is waiting to happen...
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tom nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-09-16 00:59:
> This is likely a misplaced question, but is there a difference between SCSI
> cable connexions and IDE connexions? I've searched and found lots of other
> technical info, but not what I'm looking for. I've got this (SCSI?) card
> that doesn't quite fit the cables for the IDE drives. I don't know if it's
> just been packed away a long time and shiny from never being used, or ....
>
>
>
Do you want to fry one or both? They are *NOT* compatible, keep IDE cable for IDE
controler to IDE
devices and SCSI cables SCSI controler to SCSI devices. Also, *DON'T* ever try to
connect SCSI in a
parallel interface, even if the plug does fit!!! You don't want that strange smoke and
acrid smell
of burnt electronic.
IDE is a standers and SCSI is another different and incompatible one.
Alain
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As said IDE and SCSI are two different balls of wax, if you have a IDE drive
and cable already and you don't have a spare IDE on your motherboard, stop
by your local computer store and buy a $20 IDE interface card. Finding a
SCSI drive and cable to match the SCSI card can get expensive if you buy-em
new. Make sure to check to see if your motherboard is PCI, ISA, MCA, etc
Typically Pentium (and equivilants) and higher have PCI, 486's can have
both, 386's have ISA. PS/2's (computer, not game console) will have MCA. I
doubt you'll see EISA.
Jonathan
red### [at] redmasq com
"tom" <tmi### [at] uarkedu> wrote in message
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> This is likely a misplaced question, but is there a difference between
SCSI
> cable connexions and IDE connexions? I've searched and found lots of other
> technical info, but not what I'm looking for. I've got this (SCSI?) card
> that doesn't quite fit the cables for the IDE drives. I don't know if it's
> just been packed away a long time and shiny from never being used, or ....
>
>
>
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