GA-8KNXP Ultra Motherboard SCSI Advice Please

Hi

I'm finally putting this old (GA-6BA motherboard) PC out to pasture and
building a replacement. This old one has a Adaptec 2940UW SCSI PCI card
installed and I want to take the SCSI CD,CD-R & Jazz out of it and put them
into the new computer to help keep the costs down a bit.

The GA-8KNXP Ultra has two Ultra-320 SCSI connectors controlled by a Adaptec
SCSI Ultra-320 7902W controller, so I'm thinking I could use one connector
for the new U320 SCSI hard disk I will install and the other connector for
the peripherals mentioned above. Could I do this, or are both connectors
interlinked and doing so would drag the speed of the U320 hard drive down?
Or are both connectors totally independent? I've also just had a thought for
another question, these peripherals would be SCSI 2 (I think) would I have
to get an adaptor to make it fit into the second SCSI connector?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Kevin

"K Haito" <k.haito.RemoveThis@nospam.ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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 > I'm finally putting this old (GA-6BA motherboard) PC out to pasture
and
 > building a replacement. This old one has a Adaptec 2940UW SCSI PCI
card
 > installed and I want to take the SCSI CD,CD-R & Jazz out of it and put
them
 > into the new computer to help keep the costs down a bit.
 >
 > The GA-8KNXP Ultra has two Ultra-320 SCSI connectors controlled by a
Adaptec
 > SCSI Ultra-320 7902W controller, so I'm thinking I could use one
connector
 > for the new U320 SCSI hard disk I will install and the other connector
for
 > the peripherals mentioned above. Could I do this, or are both
connectors
 > interlinked and doing so would drag the speed of the U320 hard drive
down?
 > Or are both connectors totally independent? I've also just had a
thought for
 > another question, these peripherals would be SCSI 2 (I think) would I
have
 > to get an adaptor to make it fit into the second SCSI connector?
 >
 >
The 2 channels are independent. Its a good idea to put 16 bit wide SCSI
devices on one channel and 8 bit narrow on another to avoid termination
problems. You will need a wide to narrow converter. A good source of
SCSI parts here:
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