[NBLUG/talk] Attempting an "ancient hardware" install...

[Walter Hansen]

all you'd need is to put in a scsi box. Hmmm.


> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:00:28PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> } On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 15:28, E Frank Ball wrote:
> } >
> } > I can bring a SCSI CD-ROM drive tomorrow, but it doesn't
> } > have the SCSI port that looks like a parallel port (25
> } > pins?).  It's the 50 pin (SCSI II ?).  There are probably
> } > adapters to go between, but I don't have one.
> }
> } Is the 50-pin connector the one that looks like an elongated
> } "Centronics" port (usually found on printers that connect to a
> parallel } port)?  If so, I think I already have such an adapter.
>
>
> No that's the kind of connector you find on a rear panel.  This is like
> an enlongated IDE connector with 50 pins instead of 34.  The cable that
> plugs into it is a ribbon cable.  This is an internal drive.
>
>
> } Do you know if that CD-ROM drive can read CD-RW's?  I'd like to use }
> CD-RW's if possible, since I don't know if this will work or not, but }
> since CD-R's are so cheap, it's not a big deal.
>
> I have no idea.
>
>
> --
>
>    E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com
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