Brother can you spare a SCSI drive?

[John Abreau]

If you're willing to spend a little, you can get an ACARD ARS-2000LFS 
IDE to SCSI Bridge for $79.

     http://www.pc-pitstop.com/scsi_ide_adapters/ars2000lfs.asp

You strap this onto an IDE disk, and it essentially turns it into a
SCSI disk. I used a couple of these a few years ago to upgrade an old 
Sun Sparcstation with a pair of 100 gb drives. They work great.


Michael ODonnell wrote:
> I have system on my home network that is basically
> just cobbled together from skanky old spare parts.
> It's configured with an old 9Gb SCSI drive as the
> system disk and a couple of 120Gb IDE drives as a RAID.
> The SCSI system disk has developed thermal problems where
> it runs perfectly for several hours and then suddenly
> becomes useless until it's shut down and cools off.
> 
> The path of least resistance for me is just to swap
> in another SCSI drive, reload Linux and then bring the
> system back into service, which consists primarily of
> serving that RAID to the rest of my network.  So I wonder
> if anybody has an old SCSI drive that I could have for
> free or cheap.  The failing drive is a Seagate ST39140W
> that's been running since ~1999 in various systems.  I
> think the interface is the familiar single-ended 68-pin
> wide SCSI, so I'm looking for basically anything that
> could be swapped into the system in place of that, and
> I think that I don't care about capacity or form factor.
> 
> With such big, fast PATA/SATA drives available nowadays
> I'm hoping there's a small retired SCSI drive sitting
> lonesome on somebody's shelf that needs a good home...
> 
> 
> TIA,
>   --M
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