Ok I am confused here.

According to Minoltas website this thing runs off of SCSI 2. I bought a SCSI 2 external device card...are there varying types of SCSI 2?

 

does your cable connect to the external port on the scsi card?

there's ultra wide scsi 2 and stuff, but it shouldn't affect you scanner

 

No the cable is to big for the cards receiver

 

sorry i didn't answer earlier. i've been traveling all day.

first there is no such thing as 70-pin scsi cable.

there are 25, 50, 68 and 80.

you don't have to worry about 68 or 80.

from the picture you posted, it looks like a 25 to 50 pin cable.

SCSI I/II/III doesn't have anything to do with the pin numbers of the cable or the connector type.

to answer your question see above. there are different types of SCSI II cards, remember those are just standards for transmission of signals with many variations on the physical connector types.

the scanner should say SCSI II 50pin high density or low density connector.
it maybe even be a 68pin but I doubt it, as those type usually cost close to $1k.

high density 50-pin external connector looks like the one on the left (on the pic you posted), a low density 50 aka centronics looks like the old printer cable.

let me know if you have any other question. i'm gonna crash now. it's nearly 4am

 

i never got into SCSI...what are the benefits?

 

example: instead of having a 4 lane highway... you have a 20 lane highway.

SCSI usually also lets you connect more devices to an adapter than say IDE. One IDE port will support 2 devices. One SCSI port will support upto 7.

However, with all that added copper is mucho added cost. Mondo super extra cash like woah! :eek3:

There's a new kid in town called SATA. It's kinda a cross between IDE and older types of technology mixed in with some new fancy hightech stuff. It's smaller, faster, cheaper, easier to work with and more expandable in the future than both IDE and SCSI. It's still pretty new, I've been running it on this system for quite a few months now and have had absolutly no problems with it.

It was super easy to install and the cables are so much smaller and more flexable. Very nice. SATA gets mad props y0.

 

Yea, I have a Seagate 120GB SATA HDD...runs a lot smoother and faster than my Maxtor 40GB 100ATA HDD.

 

I got WD Raptors, they're SATA and I'm happy with them.

I think I have an old ISA SCSI card that was from an old HP scanner than doesn't work anymore. I doubt you've got an ISA port but if you want it? I don't know the manufacture or have the drivers disk.

 

scsi also uses less system resources than ide.
plus more devices like stated above, even wit hall of them going at the same time.

it used to be much faster than ide, but ide has improved and with sata, scsi is really used for mainly servers, where i feel it is still supreme.

although i run scsi on my home system :-p

 

with sata in the picture, scsi is now mainly an "enterprise" type of storage device. best for applications when large pools of data need to accessed quickly with 24/7 reliability.