Re: Ground archive

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote in message 
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> In article <ddnpaf$ab$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>,
> Steve Nelson <snelson@icaen.uiowa.edu> wrote:
>>A few weeks ago ground.ecn.uiowa.edu suffered a drive failure and has been
>>offline since that time.  I have not found a replacement drive yet (50pin
>>narrow, single-ended SCSI, which was commonly used several years ago).
>
> There are inexpensive adapters that will connect 68-pin (wide SCSI) and
> 80-pin (SCA) drives to narrow SCSI adapters.  I use one with an 80-pin 
> 4.3GB
> Seagate Barracuda plugged into my GS.  At this point, I suspect you might 
> be
> better off following this approach; it'd let you use a new drive instead 
> of
> having to take a chance on a used drive.


My 50 GB SCSI hard drive is new, take away a few months, and I only loaded
it up and shortly thereafter took down the machine. I needed the space. 
There is
nothing important on it, but I would like to copy it to an IDE drive and 
reformat
since I do have a purchased and legal copy of Bernie on there. Otherwise, it 
is
a good drive.  :o)

Bill Garber