[Pc_Support] New to SCSI, what's needed to use an internal DLT drive?

[Patrick]

On Wednesday 27 April 2005 03:18 pm, Damien McKenna wrote:
> I'm looking at buying at least two internal Quantum TH5AA DLT-4000
> drives and am not sure what to do regarding the hardware.  I've got a
> SCSI one card in one machine and will most likely have to get some for
> the others.  Being a SCSI newbie I'm not sure where to start regarding
> getting extras.  I'll need cables, but what sort?  Will I need
> terminators?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.

I have some 50pin SCSI cards on hand that run about $9.99 plus shipping for 
the 50 pin Adaptec cards, usually, on ebay.  Sometimes, they are at the 
computer shows, although most vendors don't have any use for them, and sell 
them for $6 to $15 (depending upon the SCSI model).   

I have paid as little as $1 each for cables, plus shipping on ebay.  Recently 
bought 4 cables, (3 are 50 pin, one is LVD/SE) for $5.50$ including shipping.

I have some CDrom drives, and burners, all are 50 pin, and it is fast enough 
for those purposes.  I like the 68 pin stuff for hard drives, though, because 
the throughput is as high as 320 mb/s for SCSI UW3. 

  



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