Can't connect my External Scsi hard drive.

[Palik]

Hallo everybody!

I just got an External scsi hard drive (it's a scsi Western Digital HD which is put in a special box and connected to the printer port (25 pins) with a cabel).
How do I make my computer to recognize it?
Do I have to connect it to the printer port?

Thanx for the help!!!!!!!!!

[Darren Wilson]

DO NOT CONNECT THIS TO A PRINTER PORT!!!!!!!!!!!

You need a SCSI host controller that has the 25 pin external connector or if you have a more recent SCSI card, a cable that with a suitable connector for attaching the box to the card.

[ejhe]

Scsi hard drive must be connected to a scsi controller. If you plan to boot from drive controller must have it's own bios. I recommend finding an Adaptec 2940 series card. Also you will have to probably buy an external scsi cable that goes from 50 pin hp or 68 pin wide to your 25pin drive. This would depend on which model 2940 you get.

[jbar1]

Also depends on type of external box you have. There are still some (Like Syquest) that connect to a parallel port with a feed thru for a printer. They emulate a scsi controler via software. Be sure of what you have before you plunk down the bucks

[WotsUpDoc]

Originally posted by Palik:
Hallo everybody!

I just got an External scsi hard drive (it's a scsi Western Digital HD which is put in a special box and connected to the printer port (25 pins) with a cabel).
How do I make my computer to recognize it?
Do I have to connect it to the printer port?

Thanx for the help!!!!!!!!!

Well, there IS such a solution as you propose:
Right now I'm looking at an Adaptec product that says: "MiniSCSI for SCSI-1" and it's essentially a printer cable (centronics to D 25 male) with a D 25 female connector integral with the Centronics part of this connector. I suppose that this D 25 female connector is the SCSI connection. I'm shure that this is a solution that will not allow high speeds (SCSI 1 and parallel port) but I suppose your SCSI harddisk is not a really fast one.
The simple answer would be: yes you can connect it to the parallelport of your computer, but then I'd ignore the fact that this a parallel to SCSI converter

Another thing is that I hope that your printerport is still working, as with SCSI devices there are a lot of pins connected to the earth, thus shorting a lot of pins of your printerport. Not all boards allow you to short their pins and still continue printing after removing the SCSI device