John L Rice wrote:

"Pooh Bear" wrote in message
...
Doc Gorpon wrote:

The older 'flavours' were 18 feet maximum total cable length.
Differential
goes
further IIRC but you're unlikely to have that.

I would be removing the dvd drive and carrying it across my house for
hookup
to my pc. So length of cable isn't an issue.

Ok, check if it has a 50 pin cable going to it with a connector that looks
like a
printer connector but bigger ( or a 25 pin D type ). That version of SCSI
is/was
the most popular and adaptors widely available. They tend not to be that
cheap
though, it's a bit of specialised market almost 'owned' by Adaptec.


Grham


It's a 'half-pitch 50 pin' connector (from the D2424LV manual page 19 and
93).

Ok, that makes it pretty easy. That's the most popular, well, widely used
version of SCSI. A SCSI 2 adaptor will do nicely.

I checked some out btw. The basic ones aren't actually that expensive. Even the
entry level Adaptecs. I would recomment Adaptec btw since their documentation is
normally first class, although I used to buy bare ( OEM ) boards too, to save
money.

I'm assuming the the Drive is 'terminated' btw - i.e. it's at the end of the
lead. Otherwise you need a terminator too. The adaptor card has to have
termination enabled at its end too ( asuming you're not planning on adding any
internal SCSI devices ).

I found an Adaptec AVA-2904 here in the UK for £25 but can't see it on any US
site. It appears to be an old model maybe ? The similar AVA-2906 is $65 direct
from Adaptec -
http://www.adaptecstore.com/index.cf...ctid=1 772900

Typical - the 2904 has a 'half pitch' 50 pin connector as on your drive but the
2906 has a standard pitch 25 pin external ( like Macs used to have ). Means a
different cable. What cable do you currently have ?


Graham