[ltp] connecting an internal SCSI drive?

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:41:05 -0400


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:32:39 -0400 (EDT), Aaron Mulder
<ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Eben King wrote:
> > Which is easier to do depends on which is easier to get.  The PCMCIA
> > method will give faster throughput most likely.
> 
>         I dunno, the (Adaptec) PCMCIA SCSI card I have seemed mainly
> intended to drive a scanner.  I don't think it let you connect all 7
> devices (though I forget if it was actually limited to just 1) and I think
> it was only 16-bit, even though Cardbus had been out for a while.  On the
> other hand, I'm not using it right now, so if the original poster wants to
> borrow it for a while, drop me a note.  I also have a SCSI-2 external
> drive cage, which will only help if this is a really old drive we're
> talking about.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> P.S. I haven't tried the SCSI card with any remotely modern Linux distros.

I've used my adaptec pcmcia card regularly for my jaz drive.

Alex