26 Sep
2006
26 Sep
'06
4:13 p.m.
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 06:45 pm, Simon Fryer wrote:
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I am going to guess a 68 pin wide to Honda 50.
I don't think either of these is "wide".
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,
I can't conveniently get at the back of the machine right now, but I pulled
out both of my other 2940s, and the 2940uw is apparently a "wide" connector,
and fastens with screws, while the other (non-"uw") 2940 has a couple of
latches on either and of the connector, and is definitely smaller.
and the connector on the back of the CD writter is
looking for a male
connector that is secured by clips.
Probably. I just took a look at it and there are no screw fastenings there
either. Only thing I can tell you for sure is that it's smaller than the one
on the 2940. Honda 50? That's not a designation for a connector that I've
ever bumped into before. Google is finding me some pictures, though...
[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.
Are you mixing wide and narrow stuff there?
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