Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 11:27 am, Joe Dufresne wrote:
> |> Actually, I'm wondering the same thing.  i'm thinking maybe if I
> |> take out the dremel tool and soldering iron, I could splice on
> |> enough pins. that would make it SCSI, right? ;-)
> |>
> |> Joe
> |>
> |> - --
> |
> | AHA! that's where Linux gets clever, you can do it very easily for
> | a 2.4.x kernel, 2.6.0 does away with the need for ide-scsi, to
> | great cheers. The original poster has no doubt seen my post and is
> | up and running and smiling.
> | Regards
> | Sid.
>
> Yes, Yes, but I _need_ a pair of 75 gig scsi drives for use in a raid
> setup.  since the street price for one seems to be about $350, and I
> can't afford that, can't i just modify a IDE drive by soldering on
> more pins to make it a scsi drive?  it would be so much easier...
>
> ;-)

Well, you can buy an adapter cable for your SCSI controller. <g>

Now, while I started to write this as a joke, and was going to include 
some bogus www link, I searched google for "scsi to ide adapter" and 
got this

http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/IDE_to_SCSI/ide_to_scsi_adapter.html

So who would have guessed?

-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
"I'd rather be sailing"