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That's an adapter that connects SCSI drives with an SCA interface (which combines data and power into one long connector) to a 68-pin SCSI data ribbon cable and regular 4-pin Molex power (which was commonly found in workstations at the time).

 

The pin header is for configuring the drive. Every device on a SCSI chain needs its own unique ID number, so that's what ID0 through ID3 are for. The others set things like a startup delay and let you hook up an activity LED.

 

It's all ancient history.

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Maybe part of some kind of recovery tool or adapter for SCSI drives

English is not my first language, so please excuse any confusion or misunderstandings on my end, also I like to edit my posts a lot.

 

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That's an adapter that connects SCSI drives with an SCA interface (which combines data and power into one long connector) to a 68-pin SCSI data ribbon cable and regular 4-pin Molex power (which was commonly found in workstations at the time).

 

The pin header is for configuring the drive. Every device on a SCSI chain needs its own unique ID number, so that's what ID0 through ID3 are for. The others set things like a startup delay and let you hook up an activity LED.

 

It's all ancient history.

I sold my soul for ProSupport.

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2 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

That's an adapter that connects SCSI drives with an SCA interface (which combines data and power into one long connector) to a 68-pin SCSI data ribbon cable and regular 4-pin Molex power (which was commonly found in workstations at the time).

 

The pin header is for configuring the drive. Every device on a SCSI chain needs its own unique ID number, so that's what ID0 through ID3 are for. The others set things like a startup delay and let you hook up an activity LED.

 

It's all ancient history.

Damn that’s really ancient history.

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