[Gllug] SCSI Hard Drives

[Andy McGarty]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackson, Harry" <HJackson at colt-telecom.com>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: RE: [Gllug] SCSI Hard Drives


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tet at accucard.com [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
> >
> > >I also find it a bit odd that the seagate LC uses 80 pins rather than
> > >68 and I cannot be arsed looking for adapters.
> >
Snip
>
> Just out of interest, do the normal 68 pin SCSI cards cater for this draw
on
> power if you are using SCA devices. If your card takes 15 devices then
this
> is quite a lot of juice to be drawing through a motherboard and card. Just
> checked the specs and the latency is the same. I would have thought there
> would be some performance gains with multiple heads but obviously not all
> the time.
>
> Harry
>
When using a 68-80 pin adaptor the power comes from the power supply (or it
does on the one I got from blackbox), so its not touching the scsi card or
motherboard.  You would of course have to make sue the power supply was up
for it.

Andy



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