24 Feb
2002
24 Feb
'02
7:15 a.m.
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Was there not a situation where, for a time, Trantor's DB-24 pinout
differed from the Mac's?
- don
> When
talking about the DB25 end, it is ALMOST standardized.
> At one time, Trantor (now subsumed by Adaptec) warned about using cables
> intended for Apple with their cards. It was an issue of whether
> "TermPWR" was connected.
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Doc wrote:
OK, maybe my deal is related to that, maybe
not. It's been bugging me
for a while, though.
I don't think that it is the same problem. I think that Trantor's
problem was that their external parallel to SCSI gadgets (T338,
etc.) needed TERMPWR, and some of the existing cables that had the right
connectors (serial and centronics :-) didn't pass TermPWR through.