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Ok, so I just bought some SCSI drives for a sever I am building to help me GET my MCSE. The drives I bought are Compaq 36.4GB Ultra3 10K SCSI. My problem comes from looking at the pictures of it, as I have not received it in the MAIL yet. The connector on the drive looks like its D shaped like a DB connector yet all the ultra3 cables i've seen are rectangular.

I have a theory that this i because the drive is meant to go in a hot swap tray, but I am not using the trays. Also the controller on the mobo is a D shape so this screws my earlier theory but why CANT I find a cable like this? I am also confused as to the pin count some sources say 68 and others say 80 for the same drive.

I am really confused here. THANKS in advance for the help.What's the specific model of the drive?
SCSI cabling and connectors can be confusing so I do know where you're coming from.Model number is: bdo3664545

There is a pic of the label attached

Thanks

[recovering disk space - old attachment deleted by admin]Pic of the drive is nice, but can't see the connector, but is does say Wide Ultra-3 SCSI.
You could count the pins!

This is 68-pin SCSI


http://www.scsita.org/terms/SCSI_Overview.html
Thats what I thought but all the pics I see for the 68 pin ultra 3 look rectangular so it got me nervous.



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