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Re: For trade



Ric,
	These drives are quite usefull in many Sun/SPARC systems, like the
SS4/5 and possibly others... You should look into making your offer in a
Sun Workstation usenet newsgroup or other such forum... These machines
"require" SCA drives...

Good luck,

Ken
khansen@njcc.com

Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 03 Jan 1999, Pooh wrote:
> >>      I have 3 (nearly new) 2.2 gb SCSI Fast Wide Ultra SCA 1"  tall drives
> >> (note, these are SCA drives, they have the 80 pin connector) to trade. Silly as
> >> it sounds, all I want for them is equivalent drives in SCSI-2 Fast. (the ones
> >> with the 50 pin connector).   Please, only 1" high drives. These are all that
> >> will fit in the case. I will consider a single drive of similar capacity in a
> >> 1.65" height.
> >
> >dude...why not just get an SCA -> 50 pin/power adapter?
> >
> >they aren't that expensive.
> 
> Do the math:
>         The adapters are $25 ea. (and it's 1 per drive!)
>         Then you need a ribbon cable to go from the adapter to the drive
> ($25ea. You have to have them made!)
> 
>         It works out to around $150 to put the drives in!
>         So before I did that, I thought I'd check to see if anyone else had a
> system that could use them, and wanted to trade. If this turns up dry, then
> I'll bite the bullet, and get the adapters.
> 
>         Ric
> 
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