Compact and versatile SCA to SCSI bus adapter

A compact adapter for interconnecting a digital computer peripheral device that uses a Single Connector Attachment (“SCA”) to a conventional American National Standards Institute (“ANSI”) Small Computer System Interface (“SCSI”) bus, the adapter comprising:

• a SCA connector adapted to mate with and engage a complementary SCA connector included in a peripheral device;
• a planar printed circuit board having a first face that is juxtaposed with and that is perpendicular to said SCA connector, said printed circuit board including traces that electrically couple said printed circuit board to said SCA connector, said printed circuit board having a width parallel to the first face of said printed circuit board and perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of said SCA connector that is sufficiently narrow to permit a peripheral device, when said SCA connector of the adapter is mated with and engaging a complementary SCA connector of a peripheral device, to fit within a space in a digital computer system that is adapted to receive the peripheral device;
• an electrical power connector that is juxtaposed with and disposed perpendicular to a second face of said printed circuit board, said electrical power connector being electrically coupled to said SCA connector by traces on said printed circuit board;
• a first, conventional SCSI bus connector having a style chosen from among a plurality of styles for conventional SCSI bus connectors, said SCSI bus connector being juxtaposed with and disposed perpendicular to the second face of said printed circuit board, and said SCSI bus connector being electrically coupled to said SCA connector by traces on said printed circuit board;
• and
• SCSI bus electrical termination means adapted for selectively providing termination for electrical signals present on the SCSI bus depending upon a location at which the compact adapter is positioned along the SCSI bus.