HELP: SCA2 (Fibre Channel) HDD on an internal controller in my PC

[Kyanzes]

Hi! A guy wants to sell me fibre channel SCA2 HDDs (15K RPM 147GB Seagate Cheetah for $190 a piece) but even though I've searched high and low I just couldn't find myself a controller that my mobo (975XBX with 32bit PCI slots and PCI-E slots only, no 64bit PCI) could accomodate. Is there even such controller in existence? Any converter/adapter solution?

HELP, I want those 15K RPM babies in my comp!!!

 

[SuperNaruto]

SCA fiber are usualy in enclosures... i dont think its usually worth getting.. if you need to spend a lot on enclosure, cables, etc

usually like a qlogic 2120 fiber controller.. most 64bit are backward compatible at 32bit.

do you have the exact model, some are 80pin sca2
some fiber are using http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/ddyf/ddyfcon.gif

 

[Kyanzes]

Here's a link to the model. It's 40 pin SCA.

 

[SuperNaruto]

You need one of these qla cards and an enclosure, i dont think there any connector, you usually connect these drives to a fiber backplane in one of these enclosures.

ebay - 110053364059 qla2100 or qla2200 based card

enclosure - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150056210899

drive type
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170023153738 d