Re: SCSI challenged
- From: "George Hester" <hesterloli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:34:07 -0400
I took the harddrives and ribbon to a computer shop and they explained it somewhat. What you said is similar to what they said. I'll be giving it a shot later today and will return and let you know how it turns out either way. Thx for responding William.
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George Hester
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"William Asher" <gcnp58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Xns966D711151F61FkldeltaC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> George Hester wrote:
>
> > I have a ASUS machine. It is a dual processor PII not real fast but
> > fine for what I need. It came with 2 SCSI drives but I can tell they
> > are not connected to anything. No ribbon attached.
> >
> > So I got to hook these up and I am not sure how.
> >
> > There is a connector on the Motherboard called UW SCSI and is 68-pin
> > female. Just to the top of it (towards to center of the MB) there is
> > another connector 50-pin male. This last connector has nothing in it.
> > Now the ribbon from the UW SCSI connector goes to another board and
> > has a connector between this board and the end that goes into the
> > Motherboard. This board has a P4 connector from the Power supply, a
> > female 68-pin connector that this ribbon goes to and a 50-pin male
> > connector with nothing on it. And 5 female 8-pin connectors all
> > populated.
> >
> > The power cable attached to the board I was just describing trees off
> > to another P5 connector. That connector is attached to another board
> > exactly as the one I described above. This has nothing attached to it
> > besides the P5 connector. I should say almost the same. There are 5
> > female 8-pin connectors that surround the 50-pin male connector on the
> > board. They are populated on the board above but not on this one.
> >
> > A gray wire has been coming along for the ride with the Power cables
> > and it goes to the sound board.
> >
> > Right now the SCSI harddrives have nothing attached to them
> >
> > How do I hook this up?
> >
> > Here is the description and a picture of the machine:
> >
> > THE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF 2-9GB SCSI HARD DRIVES,2-333MHZ CPU'S,288 MB OF
> > PC100 RAM,NVIDIA 16MB VIDEO,2 CD ROMS,FLOPPY,AUREAL PCI AUDIO
> > CARD,HIGH SPEED ETHERNET CARD,56K MODEM,2-SERIAL PORTS,2USB PORTS,AND
> > PRINTER PORT. IT ALSO HAS WINDOWS XP PRO INSTALLED TO TEST IT OUT,BUT
> > WILL NOT COME WITH THE OPERATING SYSTEM. THIS SYSTEM PERFORMS PRETTY
> > QUICK FOR A OLDER COMPUTER. THE SHIPPING CHARGES WILL BE ESTIMATED AT
> > THE END OF THE AUCTION. THIS IS A HEAVY UNIT SO KEEP THE SHIPPING
> > CHARGES IN MIND. I WOULD SUGGEST PUTTING XP ON THIS UNIT BECAUSE IT
> > PUTS ALL THE DRIVERS IN FOR YOU AND IF YOU NEED DRIVERS YOU ALWAYS
> > HAVE DRIVERSGUIDE.COM TO GO TO.
> >
>
> It sounds like you have a P2L97-DS. I'm not sure what that other board is
> (where is it mounted and are there external ports on it so that you could
> hook up external scsi devices to your computer?), but I don't think you
> need it to get your system working. Assuming your two SCSI drives are 68-
> pin connectors, find a 68-pin SCSI cable with one socket that fits your MB
> and two that fit your hard drives. Make sure both drives have different
> SCSI ID #'s set on them, plug in the cable with one socket going to each
> drive, connect both drives to the computer's power supply on separate molex
> power connectors and you should be running. Unless of course one or both
> of those CD's are scsi devices. In which case you will need to hook them
> up to the 50-pin connector (unless they are 68-pin devices and the purpose
> of that odd board is to adapt the scsi CD drives to the connector and break
> out the sound connector (but I am guessing here)). (You didn't say what
> the connectors on the back of the hard drives look like but if they are
> standard 68-pin scsi then forget I said this next part: it may also be you
> have LVD drives and the mystery board is an adaptor to convert the 80-pin
> connectors to standard 68-pin devices. But you would need to post an
> active link to a picture of your system.)
>
> Buying computers on eBay can be a pig-in-the-poke, but then I guess you
> know that now. :-)
>
> --
> Bill "btfoom" Asher
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