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| 50632 | 2002-05-25 01:12:00 | I recently traded a with a school a full PC (P150 with internal IDE CD setup and working but no monitor) for a CD-ROM (Pioneer SCSI DR US124x) in a SCSI to Parallel case. The deal looked reasonable for both. The SCSI CD was working on a LCII Mac. The external case has no branding inside or out, but has a counter set to 3. I have tried to find a detect/diagostic utility to identify the host adapter (if it exisits in the case). I have also used CDGod without success. Do I need to install a SCSI card and use a SCSI to SCSI cable, as the Mac has a SCSI host as standard? I would dearly love to have it working on a Compaq Deskpro running Win98. I also would like make a boot disk for it so I can install both Linux and Win98. Your help would be very welcome. Thanks JimL |
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| 50633 | 2002-05-25 01:30:00 | You mention the ROM is in a parallel to scsi case. If you are attaching to the parallel port of a PC then you will need drivers to recognise the device. Then the scsi device should show. Failing that you can get a parallel to SCSI adapter, with drivers and install that OR install a SCSI card in the PC. The number on the SCSI device is it's ID which in this case is 3. The SCSI card will also have an ID, and will usually be set to a recommended number, depending upon whether of not you wish to boot from it. The details will come with the card. You will then need the correct cable to connect to the drive. Note that there are several types of connectors used for connection to SCSI external devices, so get the SCSI card with the correct one to start with. | Guest (0) | ||
| 50634 | 2002-05-25 03:00:00 | It's a SCSI drive. (I don't think that box will acually be a 'parallel to SCSI box'. Has it got DB25 connectors? If so, they will be 'Apple SCSI' connectors. You will need a SCSI card (SCSI 1 or 2) and a cable ending in the sort of connector on the drive (an Apple DB25-50 pin 'Centronics' cable backwards will do if necessary). Or you could mount the drive inside your computer box and get a flat cable. You might be constrained by what sort of terminator you can get. IF you want to use Linux, try for an Adaptec card ... they are well supported. (There are a very few models not recommended --- I think they are the very 'high-end' ones). Try for one which has a ROM with BIOS addons to allow booting from the SCSI interface, but it is not necessary --- you can make the boot floppies from a Linux installation CD, and the SCSI handling will be automatic. So a 1510 would do. I like the 1542 model ... those are ISA, but there are PCI equivalents. Watch out for the 'noname' cards which have come with scanners etc. They tend to be 'not documented', and they *might* work. Look at trademe, I've had SCSI cards for around $20-40 |
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