SCSI to ATA adapter?

[Chris Dillon]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Person, Roderick wrote:

> Well I never heard of anything like that. Why would you want to do
> that??

The main use for these adapters is for ATA CD-ROM readers and writers,
ATA tape drives, and so on, to be able to attach them to a SCSI bus.
This is exactly what I do at home with one particular device, my
Yamaha CRW-F1 CD-R/RW drive.  It is actually an ATA device with a
removable SCSI->ATA adapter.  This allows me to have the pseudo-SCSI
CRW-F1, a real SCSI DVD-ROM drive, a real SCSI ZIP drive, and a real
SCSI DDS3 tape drive all on one rounded SCSI cable, which makes for a
pretty tidy case.  And I can run all of them simultaneously without
performance problems.  :-)

Using these adapters for ATA Hard Drives probably wouldn't be as
advantageous, though it would still work with the proper adapter.

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