14 Feb
2020
14 Feb
'20
2:07 p.m.
On 2/14/2020 2:00 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
With all the "cat" foolishness the shysters have gotten in and
it's
about like the old nonsense with stereo amps "watts" and the current
"oxygen free copper" cabling for speakers.? Hard to trust any advertised
cables and pick ones that actually adhere to any specs. I am not very
good at terminating network cables, and prefer to buy all
pre-terminated, so what you are referring to is very frustrating.? And
I've not even started to touch the 10gb networking realm to figure out
how to get optimum cabling and networking set up with that technology.
thanks
Jim
On Feb 14, 2020, at 4:54 PM, jim stephens via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
...
The SCSI spec and cabling have a specific way that the conductors have to be rolled to
make a round cable. Each cable type has a recommended way that signal and grounds should
be paired and in what proximity in the cable.
For SMD I never saw a formal spec with as much detail as the SCSI spec, and I don't
know if they standardized the cabling. Mainly to speculate about whether you can use a
generic 25-25 or 37-37 straight thru.
I suspect the 25-25 would be sensitive to the type of conductor pairing and fabrication
would work.
That reminds me of a situation I ran into about 20 years ago, working
for a small router company. They had a long spool of Ethernet cable to verify correct
operation with max length cables. But things were not working right. At some point I
inspected the connectors and noticed the pairs were connected to pins 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8.
So two of the Ethernet pairs were split, since the correct pairing is 1-2, 3-6, 4-5, 7-8.
I cut off the connectors and described the correct way; once new connectors were put on
correctly the tests passed.
paul