On 02/23/2016 02:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > if it wasn't a laptop, I'd suggest looking for a NCR/Symbios/LSI based > SCSI card with a 53c8xx chip, but I've only ever seen these on ISA and > PCI, never on expresscard or pcmcia > Yeah, I have a few of those left over from an AlphaServer 2100 build...... > parallel SCSI was long dead when pci-express came out, and expresscard > is based on PCI-E, so the odds of finding anything there are really > slim ... and cardbus/pcmcia has been dead for several years. > Hmm, this does give me an idea. There are 'bridge boxes' out there that will take an ExpressCard slot and give you a couple of PCI or PCIe slots; I do have an Adaptec U320 PCIe x1 controller here along with several PCI SCSI cards of various types, and one of these bridge boxes/bus extenders might serve the purpose. Thanks, John, you gave me an idea.....