4 Sep
2006
4 Sep
'06
5:08 p.m.
On Monday 04 September 2006 02:40 am, Don wrote:
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Scanner has DB25 and Centronics connectors. Obviously, an attempt
to be compatible with a variety of different applications.
They are no doubt wired AS IF they were two "identical" connectors
with the scanner itself sitting *logically* between them (though
I have seen this PHYSICALLY violated so often on SCSI devices
that I wouldn't make any bets on it!).
Well, that's the assumption that I'm wondering about, but then I haven't
gotten into the insides of too many of those units, so I just don't know...
E.g., how much grief can I expect going *through* the
slide
scanner with DB25 coming in and Centronics going out?
I'm not sure that you even _can_ do this without seeing some detailed
technical info on the scanner. So, it *suggests* running *into* the slide scanner on
one connector
and *out* (to the next downstream device) on the *other* connector.
(scanners often only have a single connector which makes putting
more than one on a given SCSI chain a bit of a chore)
I have a couple of external SCSI CDROM drives here that are like that, too.
And have not had much success in finding any sort of a "Y-adapter" or
something I could use to deal with that.
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