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Music Shop Landgraaf
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Sun Nov 21, 2004 1:05 am Post subject:
ide2scsi or scsi2ide |
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Howdy folks
I've heard about these devices that enable one to connect IDE devices to
SCSI busses.
Do they add more intelligence to the device? LUN's?
Is there a difference in quality?
What's the exact name of these "convertors"?
How expansive are they?
How easy to find are they?
CU Mathy van Nisselroy |
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Peter H.
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Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:17 am Post subject:
Re: ide2scsi or scsi2ide |
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I've heard about these devices that enable one to connect IDE devices to SCSI |
busses.
Do they add more intelligence to the device? LUN's?
These emulate one SCSI device, ID 0-6 for narrow or 0-6 + 8-15 for wide.
No LUNs.
Once EIDE/UATA device, one SCSI address.
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Is there a difference in quality?
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No. Only one manufacturer. ACARD (Taiwan).
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What's the exact name of these "convertors"?
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SCSIDE "bridge"
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How expansive are they?
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Nowadays, more expensive than a 250 GB drive on sale.
About $79, give or take.
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How easy to find are they?
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Microland USA (San Jose) is the distributor.
One very significant feature of these is they can accept a device greater than
128 MB.
48-bit LBA support was added recently, as was emulation for CD and DVD drives
so all drives appear to be SCSI drives. |
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Folkert Rienstra
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Sun Nov 21, 2004 8:20 pm Post subject:
Re: ide2scsi or scsi2ide |
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"Peter H." <peterh5322@aol.comminch> wrote in message news:20041121011746.07586.00001063@mb-m01.aol.com
| Quote: | I've heard about these devices that enable one to connect IDE devices to SCSI
busses. Do they add more intelligence to the device? LUN's?
These emulate one SCSI device, ID 0-6 for narrow or 0-6 + 8-15 for wide.
No LUNs.
Once EIDE/UATA device, one SCSI address.
Is there a difference in quality?
No. Only one manufacturer. ACARD (Taiwan).
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They make the chips.
There are a number of manufacturers that use them.
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What's the exact name of these "convertors"?
SCSIDE "bridge"
How expansive are they?
Nowadays, more expensive than a 250 GB drive on sale.
About $79, give or take.
How easy to find are they?
Microland USA (San Jose) is the distributor.
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America, the world.
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One very significant feature of these is they can accept a device greater than
128 MB.
48-bit LBA support was added recently, as was emulation for CD and DVD drives
so all drives appear to be SCSI drives. |
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Peter H.
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Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:25 am Post subject:
Re: ide2scsi or scsi2ide |
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No. Only one manufacturer. ACARD (Taiwan).
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They make the chips.
There are a number of manufacturers that use them.
Name card manufacturers and products which incorporate ACARD's ARC-760 SCSI-IDE
bridge chip in their product.
(There is also a LVD-SE variant of the ARC-760).
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Microland USA (San Jose) is the distributor.
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America, the world.
For the USA.
You can always buy direct from ACARD. |
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Folkert Rienstra
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Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:20 am Post subject:
Re: ide2scsi or scsi2ide |
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"Peter H." <peterh5322@aol.comminch> wrote in message news:20041122012515.05986.00000680@mb-m19.aol.com
| Quote: | No. Only one manufacturer. ACARD (Taiwan).
They make the chips.
There are a number of manufacturers that use them.
Name card manufacturers and products which incorporate ACARD's ARC-760 SCSI-IDE
bridge chip in their product.
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Nope.
But some of their later offerings can be found here:
http://www.addonics.com/products/io/atapi_scsi.asp
http://www.addonics.com/products/io/ide_scsi.asp
On closer inspection they appear to be OEM versions
of the Acard originals though.
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(There is also a LVD-SE variant of the ARC-760).
Microland USA (San Jose) is the distributor.
America, the world.
For the USA.
You can always buy direct from ACARD.
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Or from anyone else that sells them in Europe.
http://www.acard.com/eng/shop/distrib.html |
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Peter H.
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Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:
Re: ide2scsi or scsi2ide |
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But some of their later offerings can be found here:
<A
HREF="http://www.addonics.com/products/io/atapi_scsi.asp">http://www.addon
ics.com/products/io/atapi_scsi.asp</A>
<A
HREF="http://www.addonics.com/products/io/ide_scsi.asp">http://www.addonic
s.com/products/io/ide_scsi.asp</A>
On closer inspection they appear to be OEM versions
of the Acard originals though.
Yes, these are simply ACARD cards with the vendor's logo pasted over the
"A-Chip" logo on the "bridge" chip. |
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