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#1518686 - 02/07/17 02:35 PM Scsi external Glyph CD drive?
canefire Offline
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Hi,
I tried using a SCSI Glyph CD drive that I had sitting in my studio with my VS2480 years ago and it did not work.
I've learned a bit more about SCSI and now I see I did not have a terminator in the lower SCSI port. I am about to try it again.
Then I thought maybe I should open it up and see about adding something else inside it. The outside connection is 50 pin. on the inside it is 68PIN ribbon. Considering either:

A new or refurbished old SCSI HDD
SCSI to IDE adapter for a new or refurbished IDE HDD
SCSI to IDE to put in a ssd IDE
SCSI to SD

Any thoughts to share before I proceed?

I plan on buying an old desktop with XP or Vista so that I can just pull out the HDD or ssd from the vs peripheral and then stick it in the desktop to backup files.

Cheers,
Ian
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#1518792 - 02/07/17 09:19 PM Re: Scsi external Glyph CD drive? [Re: canefire]
canefire Offline
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Registered: 11/02/04
Posts: 619
Loc: Silver Spring , MD USA
Well there was success with getting the old Glyph cd drive to work with an old scsi drive I had laying around. When I removed the cd and added the 9gig seagate it was able to be formatted by the vs2480.
The format was a bit strange. At first I choose 2g partition. it was taking very long. SO I cancelled it. I saw that the drive was somewhat formatted as it created various partitions.
Then I tried to restart without surface scan and quick at 2gig and it failed. Then I did surface scan and QUick and 1 gig and it worked.

Now I have many 1 gig partitions on the external that i can use as a backup.

SO now I am contemplating spending the money on an Acard SCSI to IDE or SCSI to sata adapter. This way I can leave this peripheral open and use it as a quick back up.
OR
maybe just buy a larger volume new older model scsi HDD and use that as back up.
It any case I am just glad I have a way to back up files.

Cheers,
Ian
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