That's the one then. It's pronounced scuzzy, but spelled Mozilla. Wait, wrong joke.
Your local pc shop is your best bet. Good luck with them.
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Is SCSI the one that's pronounced scuzzy? If so that's what I have. I'm going to call into the local computer store and see if they can do it for me so as to save me and my friend the time. Hopefully I will have all my files soon! It's starting to bug me that I don't remember what was on there and so I can't just re-look up the links.Leave a comment:
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I will once I can. The hard drive is at my friend's house and I haven't been able to go over there in a while with both of us busy. Thanks for the advice!Quoth Pedersen View PostLeave a comment:
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Okay, I'll finally toss in the SCSI knowledge I've got.
SCSI has gone through numerous standards. SCSI, Fast SCSI, Wide SCSI, Fast/Wide SCSI, UltraSCSI. A few others I've forgotten, I'm sure.
Then there's the Differential SCSI variant for most (if not all) of them.
The connectors that I've dealt with include 50 pin, 68 pin, 80 pin, and a "narrow" variant of one of those (I forget which). And those are the internal connectors.
External connectors have been a Centronix style and a newer style that I don't know the name for. I'm sure there have been other external styles, as well, so that just makes it worse.
Each cable/connector type has different electrical properties. Different rules about how to connect. And different physical connections, of course. So, how do you know what you need to know to hook up a SCSI drive?
Welcome to the wonderful world of SCSI.
There's only one way to tell: Post a model number. Every hard drive I've seen for the past 20 years has had the model number printed on a white sticker (along with other information) on the top of the drive. Give me that information, and I'll give you the information on the parts you need to buy to read that drive.
If you're not sure bit is the model number, take a photo and post it online, and I'll work from there.Leave a comment:
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My 2 cents worth:
SCSI hard drives can have either a double-row pin header connector (50 pins in 2 rows of 25, looks like a PATA connector except wider) as shown in the picture someone else linked to, or a more dense connector (I've never used it, so I can't tell you the exact layout) inside a D-shaped shell (roughly the width of the shell on a parallel port, but somewhat thicker). Higher-performance drives are more likely to have the second type.
Although an add-in SCSI board was the most common, some motherboards (especially if they came in a system designed as a server) can have SCSI on them (many years ago, I built a system for a relative based on a used ASUS 80486 motherboard that had SCSI on it). Just because the hard drive connects to the motherboard rather than an add-in card doesn't mean it's PATA.Leave a comment:
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It's all my links and pictures and I have a lot of both. It is very much worth it to me. I have definitely learned my lesson though. Back up info and then destruct. Not the other way aroundQuoth digilight View Post
Luckily there is a nice computer store where I live so I'll try taking it there. Hopefully that will help.
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Most likely it is a SCSI drive, now which type of scsi is the question. Did the ribbon cable for the hard drive plug directly into the motherboard (big ass board that most everything else pluged into) or did it plug into a smaller card that also pluged into the motherboard. If it pluged into a smaller card than thats a SCSI card, and you may be able to transfer that card to your new computer and just run the cable to it. Otherwise I've had good luck with Adaptec 2940 cards in the past.
Again like LL stated, is the data worth getting off. SCSI isn't the easiest in the world to work with. You have to make sure that the drive is terminated corectly, and that you load the drivers for the scsi board on the computer so that they will communicate.
Another option is to take the physical drive to a local computer store with knowledgable staff. See if they recognize the type of connection and can help you out.Leave a comment:
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My best friend got it online after some company shut down. He then realized he didn't have the room for the extra computer and it wasn't as good as his anyway so I bought it. For my first computer, it wasn't bad at all. I filled up all my space on it pretty quick.Quoth LostMyMind View Post
Hopefully I should be going over to my friend's house soon to find out the details on the hard drive. They've got him working overnights and calling him in on days off so I haven't had a chance to go over because he's a light sleeper.Leave a comment:
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Wow, I didn't think there was anyone else that dealt with those old intergraph computers. My old job used 4 of those computers for graphing.Quoth Shangri-laschild View Post
I do believe they use SCSI or IDE interface in those days. Do they even make SCSI hard-drives anymore? Since IDE is still used. I'm going to guess it is SCSI. You should be able to find an SCSI external kit. However, there were more than one type of SCSI connectors. So you really have to get the right one.Leave a comment:
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Nice to know I'm not the only one having a WTF moment. My guess would be a SCSI drive? That's about the only thing I can think of that would be used in a server of an older computer. (I say older because the newer ones are using SATAs as well.)Quoth LostMyMind View Post
Does the connector look like one of the following?
SATA - http://www.mysuperpc.com/build/sata_..._jumpers_3.jpg
PATA - http://educations.newegg.com/categor...w1/image04.jpg
SCSI - http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/hdrive.jpg
If so, and it wasn't RAID setup (requires at least 2 drives so it's not likely) then you just need to find the appropriate kit for it. PATA and SATA are easy to find, SCSI not so much and are a pain to configure. If it is a SCSI, do a solid debate on whether or not the data is worth the effort. Even if you know what you're doing, it can take several hours to get it working right.Leave a comment:
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All I know is it came out of what I believe is an Intergraph computer. I'm not sure how old it is but I know it was a computer that originally was only available to businesses. It was a bit on the small side but I don't know that it was all that old. How would I find out what kind of hard drive it is or will it say on it?Quoth rvdammit View PostLeave a comment:
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If it came from an old venerable server it might some flavour of SCSI. Looking at my favourite site for external kits shows none. Which leans towards getting a SCSI adaptor card to run it.Leave a comment:
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server hard-drive?
You can mount any hard-drive to be external with an external hard-drive kit (case, cables, etc...) to usb (or firewire). Unless the hard-drive is formated strangely (i.e. RAID, encrypted). All you really have to do is make sure you have the right kit. In otherwords, is the hard drive an IDE, SATA, PATA, etc...Leave a comment:
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