SCSI challenged

[George Hester]

I have a ASUS machine. It is a dual processor PII not real fast but fine for what I need. It came with 2 SCSI drives but I can tell they are not connected to anything. No ribbon attached.

So I got to hook these up and I am not sure how.

There is a connector on the Motherboard called UW SCSI and is 68-pin female. Just to the top of it (towards to center of the MB) there is another connector 50-pin male. This last connector has nothing in it. Now the ribbon from the UW SCSI connector goes to another board and has a connector between this board and the end that goes into the Motherboard. This board has a P4 connector from the Power supply, a female 68-pin connector that this ribbon goes to and a 50-pin male connector with nothing on it. And 5 female 8-pin connectors all populated.

The power cable attached to the board I was just describing trees off to another P5 connector. That connector is attached to another board exactly as the one I described above. This has nothing attached to it besides the P5 connector. I should say almost the same. There are 5 female 8-pin connectors that surround the 50-pin male connector on the board. They are populated on the board above but not on this one.

A gray wire has been coming along for the ride with the Power cables and it goes to the sound board.

Right now the SCSI harddrives have nothing attached to them

How do I hook this up?

Here is the description and a picture of the machine:

THE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF 2-9GB SCSI HARD DRIVES,2-333MHZ CPU'S,288 MB OF PC100 RAM,NVIDIA 16MB VIDEO,2 CD ROMS,FLOPPY,AUREAL PCI AUDIO CARD,HIGH SPEED ETHERNET CARD,56K MODEM,2-SERIAL PORTS,2USB PORTS,AND PRINTER PORT. IT ALSO HAS WINDOWS XP PRO INSTALLED TO TEST IT OUT,BUT WILL NOT COME WITH THE OPERATING SYSTEM. THIS SYSTEM PERFORMS PRETTY QUICK FOR A OLDER COMPUTER. THE SHIPPING CHARGES WILL BE ESTIMATED AT THE END OF THE AUCTION. THIS IS A HEAVY UNIT SO KEEP THE SHIPPING CHARGES IN MIND. I WOULD SUGGEST PUTTING XP ON THIS UNIT BECAUSE IT PUTS ALL THE DRIVERS IN FOR YOU AND IF YOU NEED DRIVERS YOU ALWAYS HAVE DRIVERSGUIDE.COM TO GO TO.

 

[William Asher]

I have a ASUS machine. It is a dual processor PII not real fast but
fine for what I need. It came with 2 SCSI drives but I can tell they
are not connected to anything. No ribbon attached.

So I got to hook these up and I am not sure how.

There is a connector on the Motherboard called UW SCSI and is 68-pin
female. Just to the top of it (towards to center of the MB) there is
another connector 50-pin male. This last connector has nothing in it.
Now the ribbon from the UW SCSI connector goes to another board and
has a connector between this board and the end that goes into the
Motherboard. This board has a P4 connector from the Power supply, a
female 68-pin connector that this ribbon goes to and a 50-pin male
connector with nothing on it. And 5 female 8-pin connectors all
populated.

The power cable attached to the board I was just describing trees off
to another P5 connector. That connector is attached to another board
exactly as the one I described above. This has nothing attached to it
besides the P5 connector. I should say almost the same. There are 5
female 8-pin connectors that surround the 50-pin male connector on the
board. They are populated on the board above but not on this one.

A gray wire has been coming along for the ride with the Power cables
and it goes to the sound board.

Right now the SCSI harddrives have nothing attached to them

How do I hook this up?

Here is the description and a picture of the machine:

THE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF 2-9GB SCSI HARD DRIVES,2-333MHZ CPU'S,288 MB OF
PC100 RAM,NVIDIA 16MB VIDEO,2 CD ROMS,FLOPPY,AUREAL PCI AUDIO
CARD,HIGH SPEED ETHERNET CARD,56K MODEM,2-SERIAL PORTS,2USB PORTS,AND
PRINTER PORT. IT ALSO HAS WINDOWS XP PRO INSTALLED TO TEST IT OUT,BUT
WILL NOT COME WITH THE OPERATING SYSTEM. THIS SYSTEM PERFORMS PRETTY
QUICK FOR A OLDER COMPUTER. THE SHIPPING CHARGES WILL BE ESTIMATED AT
THE END OF THE AUCTION. THIS IS A HEAVY UNIT SO KEEP THE SHIPPING
CHARGES IN MIND. I WOULD SUGGEST PUTTING XP ON THIS UNIT BECAUSE IT
PUTS ALL THE DRIVERS IN FOR YOU AND IF YOU NEED DRIVERS YOU ALWAYS
HAVE DRIVERSGUIDE.COM TO GO TO.

It sounds like you have a P2L97-DS. I'm not sure what that other board is
(where is it mounted and are there external ports on it so that you could
hook up external scsi devices to your computer?), but I don't think you
need it to get your system working. Assuming your two SCSI drives are 68-
pin connectors, find a 68-pin SCSI cable with one socket that fits your MB
and two that fit your hard drives. Make sure both drives have different
SCSI ID #'s set on them, plug in the cable with one socket going to each
drive, connect both drives to the computer's power supply on separate molex
power connectors and you should be running. Unless of course one or both
of those CD's are scsi devices. In which case you will need to hook them
up to the 50-pin connector (unless they are 68-pin devices and the purpose
of that odd board is to adapt the scsi CD drives to the connector and break
out the sound connector (but I am guessing here)). (You didn't say what
the connectors on the back of the hard drives look like but if they are
standard 68-pin scsi then forget I said this next part: it may also be you
have LVD drives and the mystery board is an adaptor to convert the 80-pin
connectors to standard 68-pin devices. But you would need to post an
active link to a picture of your system.)

Buying computers on eBay can be a pig-in-the-poke, but then I guess you
know that now.

 

[George Hester]

I took the harddrives and ribbon to a computer shop and they explained it somewhat. What you said is similar to what they said. I'll be giving it a shot later today and will return and let you know how it turns out either way. Thx for responding William.