Hello Hdd Gurus... Need some help... I am going thru a hard situation, I am in the need to try to find a way to recover some data from a SCSI drive.... label reads "36.4gb 15000rpm wide ultra320 scsi"

long story short:
seems the server (proliant i think) broke and they have no access to any other hardware capable of accessing this type of media, so they came in requiring me to figure out a way to recover such data... i thought maybe an adaptor might do the work, but i do not know if there's such a thing... (SCSI to USB? SATA? IDE? other-SCSI-then-something?) and i havent thought of any other solution yet...

as i have been told the disk drive is not broken, they just cant access it.

Any other idea, or info is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

peace.

Get a SCSI card and connect it that way...

Adaptec makes a slew of them that will do the job for 50 pin, 68 pin, and you might need an adapter for an SCA 80 pin connection.

just Google search SCSI adapters if that is the case.

Since it says Wide. I am guessing it looks something like this http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/uK ... vbUKqLNh1Q

You might also want to add http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI to your reading list...

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

^ thanks that was one of my first reads of today, and thanks for the advise on the adaptec stuff, i am on this, as wel on looking for my posibilities as for shipping and such,

thank you both for the tips, useful and quick replies. i am still undergoing this really serious situation (to me, of course), turns out those disk have a huge database related to provide public services.

Thanks again.

peace.

No offense but if it that important you should outsource to someone who knows how to attach a SCSI drive

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

looks like it, i am gonna take pics of it since you took time to reply.

download/file.php?mode=view&id=2683

Thanks,.

^ no offense taken, and if you want to take that subject to discussion (im up to it) lets do it somewhere else (like, some other thread or whatever)

on other subject,

@Cleanroom: i posted a reply with a pic, i guess has to approved or something?? Thanks again for the info.

peace.

I would recommend Beto

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

^ thoughtful, thank you!

that is a SCA connection 80 pin.

you will need and adapter for the scsi card to support that. you can find 68-pin to SCA adapters from a bunch of places.

http://discountechnology.com/80pin-to-6 ... 895#photos

looks like that.

but if you are unsure on how to do it, i agree with DRC to get someone else to do it that has experience with SCSI drives. You do not want to take any chances that you do something wrong and the data becomes unrecoverable.

^ thank you, for what ive gathered so far, i am gonna need an adapter like the one you linked me to (thanks again) and then a scsi cable and the proper pci card.

im trying.

peace.