26 Sep
2006
26 Sep
'06
3:45 p.m.
Hey All,
On 9/26/06, Billy Pettit <Billy.Pettit at wdc.com> wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
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use as it has three connectors on it and they're
all the same size. I do
have the book for the burner handy, and the cable shown in there is round.
And the connector on the burner (2 of them actually) is *smaller* than the
external connector on the 2940, I don't know exactly what you'd call this
one.
Anybody have such a cable they'd be willing to part with? I don't have much
cash to work with at all, but could probably cover postage, or maybe trade
some stuff.
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Roy,
I've read this twice but couldn't figure out which cable you need. Where
does the cable go - drive to external box, external box to PC connector or
internal to PC? How many pins on each end, what kind of connector etc.
I am going to guess a 68 pin wide to Honda 50.
Roy - can you check that the connector on the back of the adaptec card
is looking for a male connector that is secured with screws, and the
connector on the back of the CD writter is looking for a male
connector that is secured by clips.
[chomp]
I have a couple of these cables but I never seemed to get them to work
properly with my DLT drive and my NCR based host adapter. The cheap
cables seemed to do something unpleasent to the most significant 8
bits that stopped the wide drives from working correctly. The genuine
DEC cable I borrowed from a friend on a couple of occasions always
seemed to work properly.
Simon
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