PCMCIA Cardbus to UltraSCSI (Narrow 20Mb/s) - Anyone make this besides Adaptec?

I have a SCSI Enclosure tower with 4 Ultra SCSI Burners an a Plextor PX32TSI.

At home this is hooked to one of my servers (used as a workstation) I use it for bulk copying since I do training powerpoint and interactive FLASH/html CD's.

I want to be able to grab the SCSI tower & my laptop and do this in the field, as I have found there are often last minute changes required. Burning 5 sets of 4 allows me to provide 1 cd per person during a class. Burning 1 at a time would take too long even with the new USB2 high speed burners (which is how we have tried to do it... Still takes 2hrs+ to do 20 CD's

Adaptec has an item called SlimSCSI in a 1460 (Narrow SCSI2 10Mb/s) and 1480 (Ultra SCSI 20Mb/s)

I was wondering if anyone here has seen a simular item by another MFG because Adaptec is real proud of theres to the tune of $179.99.

(Edit for spelling errors)

 

In my search I found the card selling for $125.00 at http://www.synchrotech.com/products/scsi.html

 

Hi.

I searched the ever interesting Ebay and found 40 listed for SlimSCSI and 420 for UltraSCSI.

Try all variations and with and without a space between Slim and SCSI, etc. Prices were in the $10-$40 range for the SlimSCSI.

You should be able to find something there.

 

Yes - I'm watching several on Ebay.

Most are not UltraSCSI - and therefore won't work for my application.

The ones for $125 are MAC only... Though I don't know why the hardware would be any different, but they would not have any PC drivers.

I shall keep looking. - Thanks All.

 

Profgab101,
In my post that I found the card for $125.00 it show 2 cards, the first is for MAC the other is for PC.

 

Thanks all for your Input.

The stupidity of economics strikes again...

It is cheaper and more efficeint to dump the SCSI setup for mobile use and buy new USB2 hardware than to use my existing hardware.

We obtained a Sony 48x (desktop) burner and installed it in a USB2 housing. We also had a second (USB2) drive for source copy. Both were attached via an Adaptec PCMCIA USB2 card.

Drive to drive copies ranged from 2:49 to 3:15. A matched pair of burners could make 2 copies at once, also they could be "seperated" unlike SCSI which is a bit more dedicated in nature.

The Burning tower will stay back at the office from now on... (But I am still hunting for a deal on a 1480 - they sell for just over $50 on ebay...)