and the drive was never opened techknight - had to break the seals to open it.

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its booting on the first 20 meg partition.........but id say it will be dead within a few days.

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been looking at the SCA drives...definitely the way to go.

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is this the right adapter

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/NEW-Convert-SCA-80-to-50-68-PIN-ULTRA-SCSI-II-III-LVD-SE-ADAPTER-/351277291439?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item51c9c217af

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am so fed up over these drives failing. Scared to start taking them all down.......