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First post, by KingPing

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I bought this ISA card, it seems to have 2 SCSI 50 pin ports and lots of ram... no idea what it is for.. 😕

https://imgur.com/a/JaomZ

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Reply 1 of 5, by Jade Falcon

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my guess off the top of my head, its some sort of old raid card with a lot of ram for cache or a scsi/cache combo card.

Reply 2 of 5, by BeginnerGuy

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Jade Falcon wrote:

my guess off the top of my head, its some sort of old raid card with a lot of ram for cache or a scsi/cache combo card.

Pretty sure they were called Caching Disk Controllers, I vaguely remember a card like that in my fathers 386 machine in the early 1990s, around 2mb cache on his, not sure if it was IDE or SCSI

Sup. I like computers. Are you a computer?

Reply 3 of 5, by luckybob

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it's not scsi.

it's going to be an expanded memory board for some proprietary computer. or a memory board for some neighboring isa card.

with 72 pin simms, I'd guess the latter.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 4 of 5, by Anonymous Coward

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It's probably for a server. It's a memory buffer of some kind, and I would guess it's related to networking or printing.

"Will the highways on the internets become more few?" -Gee Dubya
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Reply 5 of 5, by Jade Falcon

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luckybob wrote:

it's not scsi.

it's going to be an expanded memory board for some proprietary computer. or a memory board for some neighboring isa card.

with 72 pin simms, I'd guess the latter.

I thought those ports looked fishy