[weblacky]

Hmm, yeah I don't see this happening. Because the vast majority of LVD drives don't have on-board termination. I can't speak for all of them but I know that Seagate Ultra160+ drives don't. I can't imagine that was a unique decision, but I'm not 100% sure.

If I were you I would do two things here:
You should be able to get a 50 pin narrow SCSI ribbon cable and you can use the 50-pin connector on the fuel to see if you can boot from that. Because your first question is does this system have any other issues, right?

While I've never tried it you can obviously boot from the narrow SCSI bus with an optical drive for loading install media. So I don't see why you can't install an operating system on a narrow drive on the same chain. Granted I've never tried this, but if you use a SCSI to SD adapter, which is going to be a lot cheaper than finding a 50 Pin SCSI hard drive these days, unless you already own one, you could temporarily proceed down that path so that you could unstick yourself and keep going without the SCSI Ultra160 cable, for the time being.

I don't have any crimped cables ready, I do have the IBM ones, but I was going to crimp generic SCSI Ultra160 cables with the appropriate fuel connector instead of their normal one. I do know somebody who's already crimped a couple of these who's on this forum, he's actually a seller of sorts and so he could probably sell you one of his modded cables. I can't speak to the price he'd ask, but he's normally pretty reasonable and so I assume it'll probably be a very fair transaction.

Why don't I put you in contact with him, I can send him a message to contact you about the cable and you both can hash that out? Sending a cable to South Korea really isn't that expensive. The cable itself will bundle up very tightly into a small package and so realistically I don't think we're talking bank breaking numbers here.

So why don't you consider going through the narrow SCSI channel 1st, because you should definitely be able to find a cable and an emulation device at a much cheaper price than anything else in your local vicinity, and you could continue that way.

Simultaneously I can notify this other forum member about you and see if he'll reach out to you using the PM function here. That way you can arrange a tested cable just to be sent to you from somebody who already has a fuel and can verify it. That member is also in the United States along with myself.

Does that sound like an option for you? I'll wait for your reply before contacting the member if that's not something that works for you.